Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

No one carrier has the "best" bandwidth. The best hosting solution, the absolute best bandwidth product, is an intelligent blend of a great many carriers. Simple BGP4 as so many of my competitors market is worth shit - it means nothing. It does nothing to protect a hosted customer whose traffic might be sent out over network A and have problems 2 or 10 hops later. Problems meaning congestion, packet loss or even non-delivery of packets. Every network has good assets and bad assets, excellent routes and congested and non-working routes.

We have invested huge money in equipment that makes up to 50,000 route changes every two hours between our 5 carriers, 2 peering connections and 9 gigabit of connectivity. Now that we are finally moved to our new datacenter, arguably the finest in North America, I'm not going to say that we have the "best" network yet.. because we are still growing it. However, I am confident that it is among the finest and most resiliant and will eventually get to a point of being nearly unmatched.

I am very happy to discuss further if anyone is interested in discussing network topology and carrier selection. By in large, hosting customers perception of specific networks, their design and value is completely inaccurate.

Cheers,

Brad