I've been asked to research additional ISPs. We're currently connected to
Sprint & UUNET. I'm using Boardwatch to get some general info on ISPs
http://www.ispworld.com/isp/bb/n_america.htm ), but mainly what I'm looking
for is anyone's bad/horrible/stay-away-from-this-ISP stories. One
requirement will be BGP peering.
A little more info: Right now we've got two locations we control: one is
connected to Sprint, one to UUNET, and each site is also directly connected.
Our Corporate office (not a site we control) is also on Sprint and has a
number of remote apps we access via Citrix MetaFrame (which runs fine routed
through the direct connection to the Sprint and out to Corporate), but our
main Admin site (which we control) is the UUNET site. Would it make more
sense to get a second connection to Sprint at the Admin site, or is it more
advantageous to add a 3rd ISP instead? Right now the traffic between sites
is minimal, but will be increasing once we get BGP up and running. If we
were to have Sprint at both sites, it would could down on our transit
traffic between sites, if we added a 3rd ISP at either site it would
increase our transit traffic between sites.
Both sites also resell ISP services to half a dozen customers (approx 1:6
relationship from upstream:customer), which is the main reason for adding a
3rd ISP.
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Jason Roysdon, CCNP+Security/CCDP, MCSE, CNA, Network+, A+
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