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.

Comments

[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.