Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

Mon Apr 18 08:53:32 UTC 2005

> >On the contrary, you get better redundancy by sticking to 
> >one carrier and making sure that they really provide
> >separacy though the entire span of the circuit. If you
> >have two carriers running fibre to yoiur building down
> >the same conduit, then you do NOT have separacy and as
> >a result, the redundancy is not there.
> 
> The problem with this theory is that one carrier is completely free to
> reroute your connectivity among its resources. 

One carrier can only do what your contract allows them
to do. And negotiating a contract with strong requirements
for separacy is easier with one carrier than two.

> Note that many carriers, though perhaps not the LECs, will answer
> questions about the underlying resources they are using if they are
> sufficiently motivated, but you have to reask every now and again to
> make sure that the answers are still satisfactory.

Agreed.

--Michael Dillon