Here's what I've "heard" about Sprint and peering...
Sprint's minimum to peer is 6 x OC-12's. To peer with them, you have to
undergo a 90-day trial period. At the end of the 90 days, they will
determine whether or not they would like to peer with you.
Here's the catch: During the 90-day trial period, there is a NON-REFUNDABLE
$125k/port fee (for each OC-12). So, you're looking at laying out $750k per
month for 3 months, or $2.25 MILLION over the 90-day "trial" period, and
even then, they MIGHT peer with you.
But that's just what I've "heard".
On a side note: Folks should keep an eye on Allegiance Internet (the folks
I work for). They picked up the old Digex / Intermedia Business Internet
backbone and are in the process of integrating it (under AS2548).
Financially solid company, very easy to work with, and have some strong
uptimes. (Plan on seeing an SLA of 99.999%/99.75%/65ms with a guaranteed 15
minute response time for loss of connectivity to customer prem and a
guaranteed 40 business day install). For peering, I'm pretty sure the
policy is Tier 1 = 4 points OC-3 or better, Tier 2 = 4 points DS-3 or better
(Tier 2 peer pays loop charge if applicable).
Thanks,
Dan
Dan Mitchell
Internet Systems Engineer - Boston
AllegianceInternet / Hosting.com
781.478.1857 Direct Line
dan.mitchell@hosting.com
But that's just what I've "heard".
On a side note: Folks should keep an eye on Allegiance Internet (the folks
I work for). They picked up the old Digex / Intermedia Business Internet
backbone and are in the process of integrating it (under AS2548).
Financially solid company, very easy to work with, and have some strong
uptimes.
On what basis do you claim that Allegiance Internet is going to be in
business by end of the summer?
Alex
The cynic in me started to say "less indictments against upper management than
their competitors". but then I realized that there may be more shoes waiting to
drop...
On what basis do you claim that Allegiance Internet is going to
have any external connectivity to speak of by the end of the day?
So far ALGX has spent the entire weekend leaking a full table
to anyone that would listen at MAE-West, and occaisionally MAE-East as
well.
I spent 90 minutes in the queue to inform your NOC of this
problem, and 3 hours later, the only change in this situation is that
you are now leaking a full table at MAE-East again.
I've spoken to several other people that peer with 2548, and
they've been seeing the same thing. I have been told that quite a
few people have called or emailed your NOC about this issue, for the
past two days.
Since you work for ALGX, do you think you could find someone
who can correctly update a route-map? Thanks! Incidentally, you may
wish to revise your SLA figures in light of this 2+ day incident.
--msa