MAE West

Mon Jul 14 14:45:22 UTC 1997

On Mon, Jul 14, 1997 at 07:27:15AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > To true.  Would you care to cover the cost of replicating the 400Mbp/s
[ quoting Bill ]
> > to build in better reliability?  It appears that the owners/operators of
> > MAE-West are selecting an optimization path based on the assumption that
> > outages are infrequent and can be quickly corrected.

> Both assumputions have been repeatedly proven false BY MFS.

Indeed.  More importantly, Bill, he wasn't suggesting duplicating the
400Mbps aggregate, but _splitting_ it; it is, after all, _already_ 4
separate links.

Cheers,
-- jra
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