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Re: Definition of Tier-1
From: RJ Atkinson <rja () inet org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:24:25 -0400
At 17:43 07/06/01, J.D. Falk wrote:
Breaking down? It used to be that anyone connected directly
to an exchange point was tier one, and the tiers are pretty
obvious beyond that. Now that everyone's at the exchanges,
"tier one" is simply a marketing term.
Curious. I've never heard that definition of Tier-1 before.
The common definition is "doesn't pay any other ISP to exchange routes
and traffic", or so I've thought for the past decade.
Ran
Current thread:
- Why so little traffic from C&W Sean Donelan (Jun 06)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Paul Vixie (Jun 07)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W J.D. Falk (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Simon Lockhart (Jun 07)
- more tier 1 definitions was: Why so little traffic from C&W scott w (Jun 07)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Leo Bicknell (Jun 08)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W bmanning (Jun 08)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W Rachel Warren (Jun 10)
- Re: Why so little traffic from C&W J.D. Falk (Jun 07)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 RJ Atkinson (Jun 08)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 E.B. Dreger (Jun 08)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 Travis Pugh (Jun 08)
- non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) E.B. Dreger (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) Travis Pugh (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) J.D. Falk (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) Charles Sprickman (Jun 11)
- Re: non-op (Re: Definition of Tier-1) bmanning (Jun 11)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 J.D. Falk (Jun 08)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 Austin Schutz (Jun 08)
- Re: Definition of Tier-1 Randy Bush (Jun 08)