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Originally Posted by undersoul
so you buy bw from comcast, hurricane and telecomitalia. likely push 90% of your bw through those cheap crappy providers and the last 10% with better bw providers so you can say tier1.
maybe it's just me but seems kinda risky putting your whole network in control of 1 box don't ya think?  |
You're just quite the uneducated, presumptuous one, aren't you? We buy from 7 providers, not just the three you mentioned above. We purchase a full internet routing table from all of them and not a single provider that we purchase from is "crappy". I have very few competitors that can even say they actually buy full routes from all of their carriers. Besides which, your comments seem to indicate that something like an ATT or Level3 by itself is an excellent choice, which they are not. Do a study of ATT and you will find that one best accesses remote points in their network by routing around direct connectivity and picking them up at a hop closer to their end user.
If you cared to hear the details, I'd tell you that reliability and performance on the aforementioned carriers exceeds that of many others. Also, that Comcast and Telecom Italia fill their routing tables with Sprint, Level3 and other Tier 1s and have completely un-congested networks. Or that Hurricane Electric has better performance and throughput on average than Level3 in Europe. You're not really listening to what I'm saying, so I won't bother to inundate you with facts.
Outside of that, we have a sane native policy within our Ciscos in the event of an FCP failure. The Internap FCP10Gx is not an "in line" device and as a result does not represent a single point of failure. We have fiber taps in place on every 10G circuit and this is how the FCP monitors all inbound and outbound activity on our network.
Lastly, my Internap 10GX is a more expensive piece of network equipment than the entire edge infrastructure of almost all of my competitor host networks.
Cheers,
Brad