<div dir="auto">Why isn't Hurricane in your mix yet? They have great routes, some of the lowest pricing available, and they are always easy to reach at the NOC. They also peer at nearly every IX possible. They're #1 in number of BGP adjacencies. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It looks like they have 3 or 4 paths in/out of Africa. I'd use their looking glass tool to check latency and peering. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 6:29 AM Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mark.tinka@seacom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those running a AS with multiply POP
locations around the world who would you recommend as a strong
tier 1 transit provider in Europe (good routes to Africa would
be a bonus)
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<p class="MsoNormal">We currently take full table feeds from
Telia, GTT, Cogent, Retn, tisparkle (Seabone) we are also
looking at adding NTT in the USA and maybe also in Europe but
any other recommendations ?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy to be contacted by transit providers
off list, thanks in advance
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For Europe, even though it's 10% of our overall traffic, we have
been happy with the top 7 global carriers.<br>
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For routing into Africa, I'll unicast you.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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