[36414] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Wed Apr 4 20:30:51 2001
Message-ID: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039DDC@condor.mhsc.com>
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Stephen Griffin' <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:31:08 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > You can think that way all you want to, right up to the
> time when your local
> > RBOC decides it will no longer serve you. At which time,
> good luck shoving
> > those bytes down the wire.
>
> I may be stupid or something, but the above doesn't appear to make the
> least bit of sense. Do you have data that the RBOCs and CLECs
> are moving
> out of the circuit (DS0 on up) delivery business?
No, but individual circuits go down all the time. Simply because you have a
big name provider, doesn't mean that they will be more reliable. Only the
reasons for the outage change.
The recommendations for multi-homing remain the same.
