Re: How to choose a transit provider?

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

I think it'll depend on your target customer. Residential eyeball? Being on an IX is more important at nearly any size 
than which transit you choose. Even a good-sized residential eyeball (say 10k and up subs) can be good with 
Cogent\IX\one other transit. 

Hosting and enterprise-focused ISPs will need to diversify their transit providers more. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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

From: "Mehmet Akcin" <mehmet () akcin net> 
To: "nanog" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:21:59 AM 
Subject: How to choose a transit provider? 


Hello there, 


I have started writing a blog which I hope it would help buy transit services from providers by doing various due 
diligences(technical) i wanted to reach out and ask nanog community’s thoughts on this. 


What are some of your checklist items ? Price? Their directly peered networks? If they are tier 2,3 who they use as 
tier 1-2? Are the onnet? I am sure list goes on and on on... 


Thanks a lot for your help. I plan to write the blog this month and publish. 


Mehmet -- 

Mehmet 
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