What constitutes Tier 1 ISP?

[yesthattom]

Is there a technical or legal definition of what makes an ISP "Tier 1"?

Someone is trying to claim to me that Paetec is a Tier 1 provider. I disagree, but I don't have a way to express it.

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[rainbear.livejournal.com]

As an aside... if you have a choice.. I was _very_ pleased with Savvis. When they had any outages, I got called. When we had any (even brief) outages, like having to reboot the 7006, they'd call to make sure everything was ok, and wanted to know if they could help. They were also not all that horribly priced, given the service we got from them. [They were cheaper by a few hundred dollars a month compared to our uuNet link.]

[xeger.livejournal.com]

Heh. Win some, lose some. I haven't been all that impressed with Savvis. Regularly fouled up DNS in various ways, could be relied upon to make sure that any maintenance touching them took at -least- 2x longer than it should have... and still use [of all things] Bay Networks gear as CPE. Pthek.