[OT] RE: a question about the economics of peering

From: Rafi Sadowsky (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 02:32:05 EST


On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Hitesh Patel wrote:

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> There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange
> points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more
> vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which
> will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails.
>

 Under some definitions a transit free [IN]SP is Tier-1 - so you can
tell your customers you have a Tier one as your fall-back - right ? ( ;-)

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	Rafi







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