July 2010 Archives

As our regular readers know, Renesys computes daily rankings of all the service providers in the world: globally, by geography, and by market segment. The rankings are a rather crude measure of size, as they are based entirely on the quantity of IP space ultimately transited by each provider. However, it's the ranking trends that are more revealing than any absolute number. Who is adding customers? Who is losing them or just standing still? All of the rankings and the reasons for any changes are updated daily and available via our Market Intelligence offering. For the past couple of Decembers (2009, 2008), we've also provided a glimpse into some of this data via year-end blogs devoted to the top global providers. Halfway through 2010, we decided to revisit this topic and highlight some recent changes: the fall of Sprint and rise of Tinet being perhaps the most interesting.