Curiosity about AS3356 L3/CenturyLink network resiliency (in general)

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Sun May 20 15:19:33 UTC 2018



On 20/May/18 09:16, Baldur Norddahl wrote:

>
> The question was if downtime on a transit provider of many hours is
> unacceptable. I am offering my experience that this happens to all of
> them. Some of them can have problems that last days not hours. Do not
> ever assume that a so called "tier 1" network is good as your only
> transit.

And that is where the sage advice is...

Just because they are "large", "global", "transit-free",
"international", "Tier this or Tier that", don't think they are beyond
fault. And more importantly, don't allow your customers to assume they
are beyond fault, just because you aren't them.

Take control of your situation, especially if you can.

Mark.



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