· UUNet - GigE Connection (1000Mbps)

· Level 3 - GigE Connection (1000Mbps)

· Verio - GigE Connection (1000Mbps)

· Time Warner - GigE Connection(1000Mbps)

· Global Crossing - GigE Connection (1000Mbps)

· Allegiance Telecom - GigE Connection (1000Mbps)

· ATT - OC3 Connection (155Mbps)

· More GigE carriers coming soon!

Do you have info, when and which carriers are coming to the planet?

what is going on with att? only 155 mbits.. I can not see a traceroute that uses att bw , I have tried ww.att.com and others-

Thanks for the info.

Miguel Torres

I am not sure what you mean with your question, what is going on with AT&T. All the carriers are combined running Bgp4. So by default you take the route of the least hops, basically.

I hope this helps.

is ATT Bw going to 1 gbit?
This is the right question..

any others carriers coming soon?

Do datacenter 1 has the same bw providers that datacenter 2?

Thanks.


Miguel

Datacenter 1 is connected by an OC192 to datacenter #2. So they use the same bandwidth, correct.

AT&T is an OC3 connection mixed in with all the other carriers.

New carriers are possible, very soon.

Thank You

"Datacenter 1 is connected by an OC192 to datacenter #2"

What type of hardware you using to get this type of connection.

The M20 dont support 10gbits ports, unless you are running it via an MUX and then taking 1gbit connection off it and connection them to the border routers.

Just curious...

A better way of explaining the datacenter connectivity is that we have a dark fiber ring between the two datacenters, that we light with DWDM systems. We have essentially unlimited bandwidth between the two facilities.

However - you are correct in that the M20 will not do OC192. It will do OC48, but we have chosen to utilize multiple Gig-E ports between the 2 datacenters to retain future capacity on the router and not burn up entire slots for single interfaces.

Hope this clears things up...

William,

Thank you, curious minds do wonder somtimes

You mention 8 different bandwidth providers... Is it possible for a new colo customer to request provisioning with a specific bandwidth provider from your list?

Because of the nature of BGP, it is pretty much impossible to offer you specific bandwidth with one provider without segmenting some of the providers off on their own networks.

We will be offering something like this to our Planet customers soon. If you've got a sales rep, calling them would be your best bet.

BGPv4 uses many more metrics then hop count.

-ee99ee

Can I ask why you would want to do that?

Actually the answer is simple; some backbones are faster than others to different locations or transits than others. Example, I would like my traffic to my ip-range at Verio's datacenter in Florida to be routed through the Verio pipe rather than ALGX.

In most cases the route doesnt really matter for your latency when most of the major backbones have the same distance and latency to the different locations and Internet Exchanges/pops. But sometimes its neat to use BGP to route different origins to different locations.

I hope this clear things up.

- Vidar

According to FixedOrbit.com (which looks at BGP announced routes), TP/SM has:

701 ALTERNET-AS
1239 SPRINTLINK
2548 ALGX-ATCW-AS
2914 VERIO
3356 LEVEL3
3549 GBLX
6461 ABOVENET
7018 ATT-INTERNET4
10473 COMPUSA
21523 LEASENET
26912 GIS2

Have some providers changed? Are you now bringing in certain providers through intermediaries? What's the actual mix as of now?

Thanks,
Josh

I'd like to see an update as well. Some of those providers aren't listed elsewhere.. I know of 8 providers, some of which have multiple lines (Global Crossing, ATT, Alligence, and AboveNet I believe?)

According to the network overview these are the current backbone providers:
UUNET - 1Gb/s
Time Warner - 1Gb/s
Level(3) - 1Gb/s
Verio - 1Gb/s
Global Crossing - 1Gb/s
Allegiance Telecom - 2Gb/s
AboveNet - 2Gb/s
Sprint - 1Gb/s
ATT - 1Gb/s
Broadwing - 1Gb/s (not sure if this one has been lit yet)

Total - 12Gb/s

Does datacenter 2 have some internet connectivity on it's own or does everything have to go to datacenter 1 and then go to the internet? That sounds kind of like a single point of failure if that's the case.

I believe its routed through SM/TP's own Fiber Ring. But I could be wrong.

The connection between the two is a Sonet ring I believe, which means there is multiple links going between the two datacenters, probobly in diverse locations, and into different routers, which means its not just one point of failure.

Hi,

this page lists the following current TP bandwidth providers:

• AT&T
• AboveNet
• Savvis
• Verio
• Global Crossing
• Level 3
• Time Warner Telecom
• Cogent

Can someone specify the speed for these providers (Gb/s)? Is there peering/transit?
I found partial info in this thread, but not for all of them.

Thanks,
Stef.

Those are our transit links. I don't have the break down for each one available, but aggregated it's 100+ Gbits/s. We do have multiple peering links which are not listed on that page as well.

(yes I know its an old topic)

I don't suppose Orbit is ever going to show the new peer-to-peer links or the aggregate graphs, are they?