[160438] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Feb 6 07:54:03 2013
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>, Peter Ehiwe <peterehiwe@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 07:57:06 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1BEAC5BC-55CB-4F36-8F01-D5BF73B38208@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Would you rather your ISP not maintain their devices? Are the=20
> consequences "so bad" of a 30 minute outage that your business
> is severely impacted?
>=20
> - 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 ev=
en have consequential issues if they had to sustain a 30 minute outage. Sup=
pose 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 o=
ffline 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) irrelevan=
t to you?
