[155356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGPttH. Neustar can do it, why can't we?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Mon Aug 6 11:06:38 2012
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:05:30 -0500
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On Aug 6, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> I'm curious as to your number... where is that from?
> Marhsall had noted a number of 'small businesses' in the US at ~1.4m
> as of ~2006ish?
Speaking as someone who does a lot of work supporting small business IT, =
I suspect the number is much lower. As a group, these customers tend to =
be extremely cost averse. Paying for a secondary access circuit may =
become important as cloud applications become more critical for the =
market segment, but existing smart NAT boxes that detect primary =
upstream failure and switch over to a secondary ISP will work for many =
cases. Yes, it's ugly, but it gets them reconnected to the off-site =
email server and the payment card gateway.
--Chris
