Ratings aggregator Proof66. com categorizes the Sapphire as a Tier 1 spirit, indicating generally favorable " expert " reviews.

Other Tier 1 cable operators, including Comcast, have announced trials of a similar service in sections of the US Northeast.

The United States Department of State publishes the annual Trafficking in Persons Report, identifying countries as either Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3, depending upon three factors: "( 1 ) The extent to which the country is a country of origin, transit, or destination for severe forms of trafficking ; ( 2 ) The extent to which the government of the country does not comply with the TVPA's minimum standards including, in particular, the extent of the government's trafficking-related corruption ; and ( 3 ) The resources and capabilities of the government to address and eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons.

As detailed above, some carriers attempted to form a cartel of self-described Tier 1 networks, nominally refusing to peer with any networks outside the oligopoly.

* Tier 1 network

* Example Tier 1 Peering Requirements: AT & T ( AS7018 )

* Example Tier 1 Peering Requirements: MCI ( AS701 / AS702 / AS703 )

* Example Tier 1 Peering Requirements: AOL Transit Data Network ( AS1668 )

Internet service providers ( often Tier 1 networks ) participate in Internet backbone exchange traffic by privately negotiated interconnection agreements, primarily governed by the principle of settlement-free peering.

Fermilab continues to participate in the work in the LHC including serving as a Tier 1 site in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

It also owned the Tier 1 ISP UUNET, a major part of the Internet backbone.

Category: Tier 1 networks

Tier 1 or Tier One may refer to:

* Tier 1 capital, core measure of a bank's financial strength

* Tier 1 network, or Tier 1 carrier, an ISP which can connect to the entire Internet without paying transit fees

Bennington College is a progressive four-year liberal arts college ranked 104 in Tier 1 by U. S. News College Rankings.

Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.

Bridgewater State University's is ranked in the 2012 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities ( North ), Tier 2 along with forty other colleges .< ref >" Bridgewater State College | Bridgewater State University | Best College | US News.

The University is placed among Tier 3 Master's Universities ( North ) by US News 2010 < ref >" Bridgewater State College Profile.

The College is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U. S. News in its 2011 edition of " America's Best Colleges.

The College of Business and Entrepreneurship, formerly the College of Business and Technology, has over the past 3 decades has become one of better known and recognized Tier II Business schools in Texas and in the region as well.

It is considered by U. S. News & World Report as a Tier 1 Baccalaureate College and is ranked at 22.

Also the GAA plays an international Hurling hybrid match with Scotland's national shinty team ( although Ireland do not select players from the best hurling teams in Tier One of the All-Ireland championship for this game ).

Both the M. B. A. and the undergraduate Accounting programs make mention in both Forbes Magazine and the Wall Street Journal as best buys for programs offered by Tier II schools in Texas.

Prior to the campaign, Barend was best known for her congressional staff work in bringing a major interstate highway, Interstate 86, to the " Southern Tier " area of New York state, in an attempt to revitalize the lagging economy of the region.

She enjoyed her best season in 1996, when she won her first WTA Tour Tier II singles title in Paris and finished the year with a career-high season-ending singles ranking of number 15 and as the number one singles player from France.

A successful outcome would be essential in order to obtain ' Tier 4 accreditation ' and be authorised to recruit overseas students.

While the school is not labeled a " feeder school " or preparatory, a large number of students move on to Ivy League and Tier One colleges and universities after graduation.

The district was placed in Tier 2 due to students spending more than 60 % of the school day, outside of regular education.

In 2010, the district was assigned to the Tier 1 monitoring list, due to students spending less than 40 % of their day in a regular education classroom.

Boarding students will be given a Tier One Gating if they get 9 demerits while day boys can only have 6 before they are given a Tier One Gating.

* Tier One Gating-a detention given out to students either because of an accumulation of demerits, a disciplinary or academic problem.

Bermudian Springs School District was placed in Tier 3 due to students spending more than 60 % of the school day, outside of regular education.

In 2010, the district was assigned to the Tier 3 monitoring list, due to students spending less than 40 % of their day in a regular education classroom.

The district was placed in Tier 3 due to being Identified for category of too many students with IEPs being served in settings outside regular schools.

In October 2008, in a move to increase its core Tier 1 capital ratio above 8 %, ING Group accepted a capital injection plan from the Dutch Government.

In his book Enduring the Freedom, Sean M. Maloney reported that during operations in Afghanistan, Canada's JTF2 was the only foreign unit accepted to join American Tier 1 special operations units, such as 1st SFOD-D ( Delta Force ) and DEVGRU in Task Force 11 whose job it was to hunt high value al-Qaeda and Taliban personnel and to conduct sensitive site exploitation.

In January 2007, 155 East Tropicana accepted an unsolicited offer from Hedwigs Las Vegas Top Tier, a joint venture of NTH Advisory Group and Silverleaf Real Estate, to buy the property for $ 225 million ( including assumption of $ 130 million in debt ).

The school also operates a team in a second level of junior hockey, Tier II Junior " A " known as the St. Michael's Buzzers.

One of the branches of the city's triune academies of Tier Brieche, Arach-Tinilith is neighbored by the warrior school Melee-Magthere, and Sorcere tower where arcane spellcasters are sent to study.

Standing at the center of Tier Brieche, the school resembles a giant obsidian spider, sporting eight legs and a large central hall.

** Tier 1 full time Law school

** Tier 1 full time MBA school

LexisNexis Halsbury's Law Monthly rates NUJS as a Tier One law school, jointly with the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, and the National Law School of India University ( NLSIU ), Bangalore, and states that NUJS's " placement process is at par with the other two colleges in the top tier.

In 2012, the school was ranked Tier 2 by Best Colleges is Regional Universities ( South ).

The university was rated as a Tier 4 school by U. S. News & World Report in its 2010 Best Colleges edition.

The University of Alabama School of Law ( also known as Alabama Law ) located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a nationally ranked top-tier law school ( First Tier )

The school is also part of the Southern Tier Athletic Conference ( STAC ).

* Rutgers School of Law – Newark is ranked as a “ Tier 1 ” school by the 2012 edition of U. S. News & World Report ’ s “ Best Graduate Schools .” It is tied for 82nd overall.