My main objective is to get opinions from people who are customers of these providers, I am just going to use them for "plain vanilla" IP transit with BGP, no IPV6 or multicast or any value added services. To give you an idea of what I am looking for, Internap is extremely reliable and I haven't had any problems with their service, but they take 48 hours to update BGP filters. Sprint takes about 45 minutes to update filters but I feel that their customer service is lacking. I am interested in the idea of buying transit through an exchange though, where could I find more information on that, advantages/disadvantages?
*-----Original Message----- *From: dre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] *Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:49 PM *To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: Re: Opinions on Providers [7:48339] * * *""Lupi, Guy"" wrote in message *[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... *> You bring up some very interesting points, I will definitely *look into *some *> of your suggestions. I am not comparing them to each other, *just wanted *to *> get a general idea of peoples experience with their networks *and customer *> service. We will be providing the loops, we have some very good *> relationships with local circuit providers, and are looking *into either *OC3 *> or OC12 connectivity to one or both. We already use Sprint, *UUnet and *> Internap, but as you stated the financial state of a couple of these *> providers has us looking for alternatives and I heard that *both of these *> companies provide quality service. Thank you. * *In that case, the answer is still fairly ambiguous. I don't *really know *what *you would expect from your providers, but it is very likely *that C&W and *Genuity provide similar services and functionality for their *IP transit as *do *Sprint, UUnet, and Internap. * *Factors I would consider is how many peers they have, their financial *stability, *how global their network reaches, how many closer eyeballs and *content their *network can provide me as opposed to a different provider, how *many outages *they have in comparison to other providers, how their *maintenances work, how *their SLA's work, what approach they take to filtering address *space, if *they *also offer transit services for IPv6 or IP Multicast, if they offer *transport services *or other services that work well along with their IP transit *services, how *their *billing works (important) - and most important - how much it's going to *cost. * *-dre * * * * Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=48355&t=48339 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
