yes I'm familiar with their plan as of 6 months ago. I would label
InterNAP a wholesole ISP that offers value-added routing.
Tony Naughtin (CEO, tony@internap.com) and Chris Wheeler (VP Eng) came from C&C and NWNet.
Ville Aikas knows Chris.
They claim two advantages. The first is 8-way multihoming. Connect to
them and your packets never have to go through an exchange point again.
Here they show stats on how up to 50% of packets through MAE-WEST get
dropped. They claim to be the first to do the BGP for more multihoming
that extreme. It takes a lot of expertise, but is copyable.
The other advantage is this Assimilator. It is a home grown tool to
analyse the global route table. They guarantee symetric routing for all
packets by monkeying with route tables (Naughtin said they had a deal
with MCI to do this to MCI's routers).