Comment by moffkalast
3 years ago
Well there three tiers of ISPs, each one buying service from the one above them. It's ISPs all the way down, and the higher up you go the more expensive the hardware to run it gets.
3 years ago
Well there three tiers of ISPs, each one buying service from the one above them. It's ISPs all the way down, and the higher up you go the more expensive the hardware to run it gets.
At the T1 level it's more completely a mesh type setup, but even lower tier ISPs might set up peering agreements to bypass their main higher tier ISP where it makes sense for cost or service quality reasons. Or refuse to to extract more money as in the comcast vs level1 disputes over netflix traffic a while back
Who is T1, T2 and T3? I really don't see it. Seems like that tiering has aged about as well as the OSI model.
I feel like this could be made into an ISP Tycoon game.
It actually does exist lol! Made by Cisco as an e-learning tool
Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foa34qoRzjs
https://web.archive.org/web/20150317144142/https://cisco.edu...
Oh god, it seems to essentially be packet tracer under the hood. It's a great tool, but I HATED using it in school.
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Dang, as someone that enjoys Tycoons, Tactics, and Management Simulators, this really sounds fun.