http://www.renesys.com/products/ provide some guidance, but probably not the kind of detailed tech you want.
Judging from my own experience, we have mostly been hit by limited path diversity & "everything seems fine" support in the past. -- Tassos Eric Louie wrote on 27/8/2013 22:02: > Based on various conversation threads on Nanog I've come up with a few > criteria for evaluating Tier 1 providers. I'm open to add other criteria - > what would you add to this list? And how would I get a quantitative or > qualitative measure of it? > > > > routing stability > > BGP community offerings > > congestion issues > > BGP Peering relationships > > path diversity > > IPv6 table size > > > > Seems like everyone offers 5 9's service, 45 ms coast-to-coast, 24x7 > customer support, 100/1Gbps/10Gbps with various DIR/CIR and burst rates. > I'm shopping for new service and want to do better than choosing on > reputation. (or, is reputation also a criteria?) > > > > much appreciated, > > Eric Louie > > > >