Your #1 Bandwidth Provider

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Anjay

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Here are a few questions regarding bandwidth, they're more personal choice questions and opinions.

1) What bandwidth providers do you have connected to your servers?
2) Why do you use them?
3) Whom are your favourite bandwidth providers?
4) Why are they your favourite?


Just a few simple questions on bandwidth, relating to who and what this and then explaining. You can tell us more info about the bandwidth providers if you like though. ;)
 
1. aexiomus (agreagted feed from level3, tiscali, netnet, easynet, kpn)
mfn (backup feed in case aex fails - never used
lipex - london IX point
xpe - london IX point
various private peering arrangements

2. why use aex - becaus ein 2 years not a minute of downtime, transit is present as just another peer to oone of our zebra based routers so only 1 technology to learn, and their broad range of upstreams keeps us 10% available even during provider outages.

3/4. aexiomus for obvious reasons - 597 days 100% availability and that only got spoilt becuase we moved into outr own suite at eth datacentre, which mean unpluggging andmoving the routers,
 
1. Level(3) communications
2. So far they have a quality redundant facility with an OC-102 backbone, they have kept us alive so far for the last 7 years.
3. I'd probably say that I'd go AT&T, UUNET...
4. Basically quality and strength in industry of carriers.

So far we've seen nothing but excellent bandwidth with level (3), they have excellent facilities that povid the most secure settings for your equipment and so basically it's tailoredred for companies wishing to enter another level of business development through the internet using their services. Overall i give them thumbs up.
 
We use Level(3), Epik, and Cogent right now. We are looking at added internap as well, they seem very very good.. :)
 
level3 - pretty good inbound peering preference from other carriers - outbound is the best we have by far.

abovenet - awesome us peering and europe peering - lots of carriers prefert heir connection incoming. outbound is pretty strong to.
pccbtn - great far eat routes and pretty good europe routes. us is ok.
middle east and africa is great too.
telia - good europe routes - weakest of the 5 overall.
xo - good us routes - a little pricey though for what you get.
 
1) What bandwidth providers do you have connected to your servers?

TeliaSonera, Abovenet, Interoute, Teleglobe, (AMS-IX)

2) Why do you use them?

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3) Whom are your favourite bandwidth providers?

TeliaSonera, Abovenet

4) Why are they your favourite?

Quality network, good NOC, large amount of routes.
 
I'm surprised nobody said Internap :). Then again, Internap is somewhat of a rare item in the hosting buisness - unless you truely want to have to hike up your rates. Along with that high quality connection should stand high quality support to keep the reputation :)

Just my US0.02 cents.
 
We use:

Global Crossing
NAC
Peer1
Qwest
Band-X

My No.1 provider is GC and Qwest.

Stuart
 
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Band-X? They're an actual bandwidth provider? I've always thought that they are just a bandwidth broker/clearing house?

-- Jonathan
 
upodate - got rid of abovenet ast month and have not missed them - they have gone down hill since my last post on this one. added global crossing - doing well so far. getting rid of xo - they stink now.
 
Very considerate of someone as busy as you must be sailor, to take the time to give us an update.
 
TimeWarner and BroadWing all the way. We use them at our datacenter. We've had NO complaints what-so-ever. Customers are more then satisfied with them being our uplink.

Cheers.
 
Anjay said:



1) What bandwidth providers do you have connected to your servers?
2) Why do you use them?
3) Whom are your favourite bandwidth providers?
4) Why are they your favourite?
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1.Mzima
2.Game servers, Mzima has one of the best gaming networks in LA
3.Mzima,Internap,Level3
4.Best latency, awesome routing.
 
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