MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )

Sun Jun 2 12:59:57 UTC 1996

### On Sat, 1 Jun 1996 18:04:56 -0400 (EDT), Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST)
### <nanog at linux.silkroad.com> wrote to flatline at ironhorse.com (Christopher
### E. Stefan) concerning "Re: MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )":

TB> it seems ironic that projects of such importance to the IP World can be
TB> configured to not to withstand a single platform crash

That statement is untrue.  At all our production sites, the service can
withstand a single platform crash.  This is because we have redundancy at
those exchange points.  However, at MAE-West, there was only one machine
operational.  The lack of a redundant machine was what prohibited
declaration of production status.

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