<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I find it most useful as a warning beacon. If anyone is talking about how they are or want "Tier 1", then I need to back away slowly.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br>Midwest-IX<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Mark Tinka via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>To: </b>"Tomas Lynch" <tomas.lynch@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, September 5, 2020 5:26:21 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?<br><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Oh, yes! Let's not
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Oh no, let's :-).<br>
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We get over here in Africa as well. Local operators either calling
themselves Tier 1, or being called a Tier 1. Nonsensical.<br>
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Years back, our Marketing team asked me to comment on the use of
"Tier" for our literature. You can probably imagine what I said :-).<br>
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For me, it's simple - you are present in X cities or Y cities. Tier
is useless because the Internet does not come from a single country
or a single operator. And saying a network is "big" or "small" is
subjective to everyone's perspective, so that doesn't help either.<br>
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So you're present here, and present there. That's it.<br>
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It's 2020 :-).<br>
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Mark.<br>
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