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Who is the best Tier1 transit provider (Level3, Telia,NTT,GTT, Tata, Sprint, FT,DT)
Who is your fav Tier1 transit provider? (Level3, Telia,NTT,GTT, Tata, Sprint, France Telecom ,Deutch Telecom)?
Please excuse cogent or hurricane from the discussion!
Number Uno
- Level345 votes
- Telia53.33%
- NTT31.11%
- GTT4.44%
- Tata6.67%
- Sprint0.00%
- France Telecom0.00%
- Deutch Telecom4.44%
Comments
There is no best carrier, only the best for a specific prefix.
Overall?
Depends where your going from, where your going too, who your connected to, how congested that particular peering point is e.t.c
A blend of all the above with proper routing would be the best, no single home network will cover you with good general performamce to everywhere.
For my opinion and my needs Level3 is the best we have found in term of connected network and security service. For the support their not the best if you not buy some additional costly service with builtin SLA.
NTT is also good carrier, good route, never congested and fast support replies. Security team is very responsible and price is awesome, but they have limited optional features.
If your judge is only on routes there is no one best. Some are better in Europe, some in U.S. etc.
I see in these months CogentCo growing well. they can be considered inside a bgp enviroment.
Depends a bit on what location your customers will come from. Some carriers have better routes to Asia and vice versa. On top of that you'll only have benefit of that if the ISPs in that country are connected to transit carrier "X".
Start with looking at network maps and looking glasses to give you an overall idea about the network of transit carrier "X".
There is unfortunately not such at thing like "one" good transit. You'll always have to combine a few to have decent routes to any ISP.
Quality wise I have good experience with NTT and Telia. TATA has quite good routes to the Asia region.
GTT has a great network as well, but their customer support is just horrible.
Level3 is O.K. to but they know their prices, especially with lower volumes.
10 or 5 years ago i would say Level3. But even they started degrading. Nowadays i would prefer a good tier2 with a good and open peering policy instead of a tIer1. The whole tier thing is flawed anyway.
Level3 has gone a bit downwards since they acquired Global Crossing somewhere 2011/2012. But overall their network is stil O.K., they're just quite expensive when you compare them to other carriers.
Not forget that on jun 2014 Level3 brought Tw telecom. So now level3 is l3 + GlobalCrossing + twt
Need background info on what you're doing and where you're doing it otherwise it's endless name dropping