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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Jul 17 13:31:32 1997

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:16:59 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: Ron Buchalski <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
Cc: Scott_Landman@zd.com, nathan@netrail.net, bnite@tremere.ios.com,
        mpearson@games-online.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707162321.QAA25142@f25.hotmail.com>; from Ron Buchalski <rbuchals@hotmail.com> on Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 04:21:48PM -0800

On Wed, Jul 16, 1997 at 04:21:48PM -0800, Ron Buchalski wrote:
> The key is to go with multiple suppliers who can guarantee diverse 
> routes.  Carriers lease capacity from each other in some cases, so 
> Sprint and MCI can give you circuits in the same physical fiber.

Actually, in light of the conversation we've been having about carriers
flagging routes that are part of diversity pairs, what happens is you
get two circuits for such service from separate carriers. 

Would they have any way of avoiding co-lo'ing the circuits?  Is there
an intercompany tag for circuit paths?

Cheers,
-- jra
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