Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?

Wed Feb 6 18:37:54 UTC 2013

On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:57 -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> > Would you rather your ISP not maintain their devices?  Are the 
> > consequences "so bad" of a 30 minute outage that your business
> > is severely impacted?
> > 
> > - Jared
> 
> You had me up until that line.
> 
> That should be expanded a little ...
> 
> First, I'd say, yes - many businesses would be severely impacted and may even have consequential issues if they had to sustain a 30 minute outage. Suppose for a moment they couldn't process money machines transactions for 30 minutes; or Netflix couldn't serve content for 30 minutes; or youporn was offline for 30 minutes.
> 
> The question should be more along the lines of, "why aren't you multihomed in a way that would make a 30 minute outage (which is inevitable) irrelevant to you?
> 
> 
> 

multihomed or simply redundantly equipped to switch over faster ?

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