Tier 2 - Lease?
Patrick W. Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Wed May 3 16:30:55 UTC 2006
On May 3, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Todd Underwood wrote:
> to underline a point made previously though: Tier-1 is a routing
> architecture term that doesn't have any useful direct bearing in how
> best to select a service provider.
s/routing architecture/business/
It is possible to be a "Tier Two" provider and use communities &
route-maps to look like a Tier One. You purchase transit, therefore
are not tier one, but are unreachable through your transit unless the
end point is a downstream of your transit provider.
Architecturally, those are identical situations. Different
commercial agreements, though.
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TTFN,
patrick
P.S. How much you wanna bet some of the "tier ones" are paying other
"tier ones" more for fiber or colo or something than the "tier twos".
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