business dedicated access choices
Robert J. Berger
>
> The question is which Internet providers are appropriate for a
> medium-size or large organization? The organization wants full-time
> access at greater than T1 speeds. It will have a substatial private
> network behind this port, used for the usual wide range of purposes.
>
> What makes this question interesting, to me, is that I believe the
> dominant concern should be for reliability. In the current Internet, I
> believe this means that either the business, itself, or the ISP must be
> multi-homed to more than one upstream provider or connection point.
> Multi-homing is not only expensive, it is difficult to operate. Setting
> up the BGP routing information and then operating the links well on a
> daily basis involves special skills.
>
> So, my question is which ISPs are recommended?
>
We do that!
We have T3 to Mae West, 2 10Mbps to Agis and a T3 our LA regional center
which is connected to the new MAE-LA via FDDI, as well as an old T1 to
sprint. We also have the PCH router here were I believe we are still
peering with several local ISPs. More capacity is on order and we are
constantly looking for other ways to peer.
We are delivering Fractional T3 service to major corporations in Silicon
Valley and LA via dedicated and SMDS connections as well as supplying
"congestion based routing" up to 10Mbps to our WebFarm customers.
--
Robert J. Berger - CTO / VP of Engineering
InterNex Information Services, Inc. 2302 Walsh Rd. Santa Clara, CA 95051
The future's already arrived - it's just not evenly distributed yet.
-- William Gibson --