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From: Martin Hannigan (no email)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 10:06:52 EDT
At 01:58 AM 5/3/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:38:22PM -0700, Robert Sherrard wrote:
> >
> > What make a provider a tier 2, versus a tier 1 provider...
> >
> > Is it possible to determine who a tier 2 (i.e. Cogent) leases fiber from?
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>It has absolutely nothing to do with fiber.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier
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>As of this exact moment that I'm posting, that article is actually
>reasonably accurate. Of course I'm sure in 5 minutes 100 people will be
>updating it to include their favorite not-really-a-tier-1 carrier. :)
Someone added Cogent as a Tier 1, and there are others missing so I'd
ignore the "who" is a tier 1 portion.
-M<
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