""Lupi, Guy"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experiences, good > or bad, with Cable and Wireless or Genuity. I am thinking of getting some > upstream connectivity from them. Thanks in advance.
Are you comparing them to each other or to somebody else? What are you considering buying besides just upstream? By upstream do you mean IP transit or also local loop connectivity for the IP transit? C&W doesn't commonly provide local loop (that would be places like MCI/Worldcom, XO Communications, Electric Lightwave, Level-3, MFN, maybe Sprint or AT&T), and Genuity for sure does not. What size of circuits or bandwidth? It is becoming more well-known that regular upstream connectivity (just IP transit services) can be bought cheaper at an neutral exchange point like Equinix, PAIX, Telehouse, et al than via a strange, unknown, remote carrier-specific POP. Connecting as a CLEC or via a CLEC that gets wholesale direct to carriers to these exchange points can be lucrative to avoid high local loop charges and also maintain a better, more available, transport network that scales with WDM and "Layer 2 non-specific" transport unlike regular TDM and SONET services. I guess it's really hard to say not knowing what you are trying to accomplish, but C&W and Genuity are major Tier 1 ISP's that have excellent customer service. They are not quite as large as Sprint, but may offer advantages over, say, UUNet (who is owned by MCI/Worldcom) because of their financial problems (and dim outlook). If you currently employ use of Cisco routers and BGP-4, you may be able to enable NetFlow on your routers to gain a list of top ASN's (Autonomous System Numbers of all organizations that run BGP on the Internet) that you send traffic to and receive traffic from. I encourage you to attempt to look at these technical factors when making decisions of which provider to choose. This may also allow you to augment your traffic decisions in the future by peering at said exchange points above or entering programs where you pay sub-transit prices for connectivity to some ASes. The exchange points often can help if you have a contract with them, but you can also do a lot of this work yourself. -dre Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=48343&t=48339 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
