What are the network providers you can find in Montreal?
Here’s a quick list ! (In no particular order)
International transit (Mostly Tier 1 providers)
- Tata Communications
- You’ve got to know them !
- Cogent
- Their network quality has greatly improved ! The best bang for the buck you’ll find.
- Orange
- Great transit to France and parts of Africa.
- Telia Carrier
- Great transit to Europe
- Hurricane Electric
- Overall good provider. Proudly fully IPv6 ready.
- AT&T
- Perfect to reach American networks.
- CenturyLink (fka. Level 3)
- Not in many data centers, but can provide huge network capacities.
- Zayo
- Great pricing for L2L and wavelengths. Transit is on the expensive side.
- GTT
- Major backbone provider.
Local transit (Tier 2 and 3 providers)
- Bell
- Major Canada-wide ISP, but lacks customer support.
- Vidéotron
- Major Quebec ISP. Owner of Fibrenoire.
- Telus
- Major ISP. Mostly mobile, but fiber as well. Can be expensive.
- Openface
- Medium-sized ISP in Montreal. Mostly serve officies.
- Fibrenoire
- Business division of Vidéotron. Great peering, but have important management issues since the Vidéotron acquisition.
- Teksaavy
- Large ISP from Ontario.
- Telkel
- Small local ISP
- B2B2C
- Small ISP.
- MetroOptic
- Medium size ISP. (Now owned by Cologix)
- Telkel
- Small ISP
- Ebox
- Bell reseller with its own AS
- Aptum (fka. Cogeco Peer 1)
- Tier 2 provider with worldwide POPs
- eStruxture
- Colocation provider that operates it’s own Tier 2 network
- INAP (fka. iWeb)
- Hosting / Colocation provider with its own network
- F6Networks
- Deutsche Telekom
- Rogers
- Shaw
- PrimeLink
- MIT Telecom
- Global crossing
- C3F Telecom
- Beanfield Metroconnect
- 360 Networks
- Allstream
- Hydro one
- Hibernia
- CTC Internet
Other networks and peering providers
- Megaport
- AWS
- Google cloud
- IBM/Softlayer
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle
- QIX
- RISQ
- IXReach
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