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Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
- From: Brian
- Date: Thu Aug 30 12:24:28 2001
Think about your last statement. If someone is homed to 2 different
providers, and 1 circuit goes down, the other should keep them up.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Greenwell" <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
>
> On 29 Aug 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 29 August 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
> > > > Routing around the problem, what a concept. More backup for the
2xt1 shop
> > > > to contimue doing it..
> > >
> > > I'm still awaiting the list of providers that never have a circuit go
> > > down. :-)
> >
> > Every carrier has had a circuit go down.
>
> On that we agree.
>
> > The difference is the carrier's response, in particular how well they
> > keep their customers informed.
>
> That is certainly *a* point of differentiation, however if the goal of
> these "basement dual-homers" is to not suffer downtime due to the
> outage of a single provider(much like the organizations that "matter"),
> all the responsiveness in the world from a provider whose circuit to
> one of the "basement dual-homers" which has failed isn't going to prevent
> them from being down, is it?
>
>
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