[143009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OOB
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Jul 26 11:21:46 2011
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:21:12 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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>
> perhaps. but given a clean slate, would you:
>
> 1) live with more redundancy in the core and hope that you don't lose
> access to things downstream from a problem (or the problemchild
> itself)
> 2) think about a solution to provide OOB access via another infrastructure?
>
>
> Presume you can figure the costs as well so loss of a
> node/set-of-nodes SLA-wise is more expensive than 1yr of oob access?
>
> -chris
>
for those w/ OOB built on PSTN or other non-IP based fabrics,
how much would it hurt if the PSTN went away?
/bill