Tier 2 network
internet service provider leasing connectivity from one or more primary ("Tier 1") ISPs
A Tier 2 network is an Internet service provider which engages in the practice of peering with other networks, but which also purchases IP transit to reach some portion of the Internet.
Tier 2 providers are the most common Internet service providers, as it is much easier to purchase transit from a Tier 1 network than to peer with them and attempt to become a Tier 1 carrier.
The term Tier 3 is sometimes also used to describe networks who solely purchase IP transit from other networks to reach the Internet.
“Tier 2 network” enters the record as internet service provider leasing connectivity from one or more primary ("Tier 1") ISPs. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tier, network and internet can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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