On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Kurt Erik Lindqvist KPNQwest wrote:
If a provider can't supply the above to a customer that really have the need for multiple connections and is willing to pay for it, I would change provider anyay.
Also pls don't forget about some geographical regions, covered by RIPE, where mostly impossible to build even one last mile channel to nearest "Tier-1 bla bla bla" provider for non-huge money.
And in what way would my own AS number and PA space give me more last-mile providers?
Don't forget about cheap sattelite channels :-) Lets imagine situation - customer in a country, where all terrastical long- range channels are controlled by one big pro-government PTT. There isn't POPs of any of "Tier-1 bla bla bla" providers. All of them can be reached only by expensive long-rage terrastical or (less expensive) sattelite channel. In this situation the most popular solution for local customer, who needs reliable and cheap IP uplink and high speed access to regional Internet resources, is to build two channels to local ISPs (not so reliable, but much more cheaper than even one external uplink) and to local IX. -- Regards, Vladimir.