How to choose a transit provider?

Fri Dec 14 18:55:27 UTC 2018

Some points I have not seen so far are:
- how do you connect? local cc in the dc or several other fiber runs
to reach a different dc/city? (affects price, setup time, maintenance
and debugging)
- where is your traffic going to/from? how many intermediate ASs or
long transfers are involved?
- bgp community support to influence routing (including the already
mentioned blackhole)
- flowspec support
- additional services like ddos mitigation
- how many ports/locations per committed bandwidth
- your own experience with the company (sales/support)
- I assume IPv6 support does not need to be mentioned anymore :)


Karsten
Am Fr., 14. Dez. 2018 um 16:24 Uhr schrieb Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net>:
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> Hello there,
>
> I have started writing a blog which I hope it would help buy transit services from providers by doing various due diligences(technical) i wanted to reach out and ask nanog community’s thoughts on this.
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> What are some of your checklist items ? Price? Their directly peered networks? If they are tier 2,3 who they use as tier 1-2? Are the onnet? I am sure list goes on and on on...
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> Thanks a lot for your help. I plan to write the blog this month and publish.
>
> Mehmet
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