Advice on dealing with Sprint

[Henry Kilmer <hank () rem com>]

Jon Green writes:
> Hi folks-
>
> I have a problem that I need some advice on, and figured this was a good place
> to turn.  We are attempting to connect a T1 to Sprint in order to multi-home
> our network.  Currently we are connected to multiple points on MCI's backbone,
> and have just installed a T1 to UUnet.  We heard back from Sprint today..
> they are rejecting us as a customer because we do not use Cisco routers.
> Apparently they feel that Bay Networks routers are not capable of routing
> Internet traffic, ignoring the fact that they already peer with ANS and
> several other providers using Bay routers.

You are actually getting some misinformation. You can use any router
you want, we just can't help you configure things other than Cisco
routers.  If you want us to manage your router, then it must be a
Cisco, otherwise use whatever you want.

> Any suggestions welcome.  Anyone from Sprint who'd like to comment, please
> do so.

Tell your Sprint sales folks that I said it was fine and approve the
SCA.  If they have any questions, have them call me.

-Hank Kilmer
Mgr Sprint IP OPS Engineering
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