I don't know how accurate it is, but here's a site that more plainly spells out 
upstream\peer\customer: 
https://radar.qrator.net/ 




----- 
Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 



----- Original Message -----

From: "Faisal Imtiaz" <fai...@snappytelecom.net> 
To: "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com> 
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 2:15:29 PM 
Subject: Re: Provider to Blend with Level3 

We approach this in the following empirical manner. 

1) Who is available to you easily and within the budget. 

2) Where is the other side of the network connectivity consumers ? 
i.e. do you need good connectivity to Cable Network ? ATT Broadband ? Europe ? 
Mexico ? Latin America ? 

3) What is the bulk of the traffic type ? Consumer (Video / You Tube ? Netflix 
? ) Business ? etc 


based on the answers to above, I would look at the bgp.he.net to see each 
options upstream connectivity, and check with peeringdb to see what could be 
their peering relationships.... finding one that does not have a directly 
Level3 relationship would be preferred. 

Also, don't forget to do traffic engineering to nullify the Level3 traffic 
engineering, (They prefer to keep traffic on-net even if there are better paths 
available out of their network). 


Faisal Imtiaz 
Snappy Internet & Telecom 
7266 SW 48 Street 
Miami, FL 33155 
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 

Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net 

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Colton Conor" <colton.co...@gmail.com> 
> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> 
> Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 12:26:55 PM 
> Subject: Provider to Blend with Level3 
> 
> We have a network that is single homed with Level3 at this time in Dallas. 
> They already have BGP and their own ASN and IP setup. Who would you 
> recommend for a second provider in Dallas to blend with Level3? Assuming 
> Level3 and this other provider would be the only two in the blend for a 
> long time to come? Client was talking to TWT, but now that they are being 
> bought by Level3 that doesn't make much sense. 
> 

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