FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Thu Aug 30 06:47:59 UTC 2001
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
>
> Agreed, everyone has circuit failures. I was just making a not so subtle
> reference to the huge multihoming thread going on, by stating that a user
> multihomed with multiple providers gives themselves a better survival
You have to make sure that the different providers you're using are not
sharing any part of their infrastructure though. I've had instances where
both links into a place goes down because they somewhere on the way there
shared who they bought some connectivity/capacity from, or went in the
same pipe or whatever that was severed.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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