[36349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Tue Apr 3 15:15:22 2001
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Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:09:55 -0700
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
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> You say "responsible cab drivers must have not one, but two taxicabs,
> in order to provide service in the event of a failure. Therefore, I
> bought one from Fisher-Price, and one from Hot Wheels, and I'm
> astounded to find that neither provides me with the luxury which I
> expected." I think Patrik may have been suggesting that if you had
> a Checker, you might not need to worry quite so much about redundancy.
...and then a meteor lands on the checker...
Better variant of the analogy would be "we lease checkers from a fleet
provider, so if one goes out we have access to more."
Short-term the best hope for this is for businesses to put their boxes in
colo farms or at an ISP with multi-homed networks in place. The problems
start when customers try to multi-home from their HQ facility or from
somewhere else that's isolated.
Convincing customers that it is cheaper/better to put their main servers
somewhere off-site away from them is the challenge. Otherwise more of them
would do it.
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
