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Re: Proper authentication model
- From: Joe Abley
- Date: Wed Jan 12 12:07:28 2005
On 12 Jan 2005, at 11:53, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
You mean you'd *request* a different path from different providers.
Provisioning a circuit from two different ^providers^, other than
your OC3 provider.
I realise that's what you meant.
My point was that competing, differently-named and
organisationally-separate suppliers of network services frequently use
common suppliers for metro fibre, long-haul transport, building access,
etc. Just because you buy different services from different providers
doesn't mean there will be no common points of failure.
Joe
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