Discussion point: Telco quality?

Fri Oct 9 14:01:12 UTC 1998

At 09:46 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Bill St. Arnaud wrote:

>> Define "reliable".
>
>Good point.  Many carriers and telco manufacturers are coming to the
>Internet business saying that we have the knowledge and expertise to build
>99.99999+ reliable networks - therefore eventually we are going to take over
>the business.  Reliable is easy to define in terms of voice calls.  But it
>has whole different set of meanings in the IP world, which most carriers and
>telco manufacturers fail to understand.  For example I can have a 99.9999+
>SONET network, but if I can't access my DNS root server, then I clearly
>don't have a reliable network.

Bingo.

- paul