istop arrogance

Sat Jul 27 15:17:57 UTC 2002

> > > Because you could *gasp* be intelligent with your network design and do
> > > things like purchase transit from the same carriers in both your serving
> > > markets.
> >
> > I guess you don't consider redundancy to be intelligent.  I do.  I guess
> > you can call me stupid.
> 
> Carriers is a plural word.. How does that not accomplish redundancy again?

As I pointed out in my last post, I can't.  And even if I could the
economics of doing it don't make sense.

If economics don't matter, then the most intelligent network design would
be a redundant OC192 mesh, but I don't know even one network that does
that.

-Ralph