[36434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Thu Apr 5 05:12:24 2001
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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 05:09:36 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
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In-Reply-To: <200104042331.TAA24452@elektra.ultra.net>; from Stephen Griffin on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:31:24AM -0400
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:31:24AM -0400, Stephen Griffin wrote:
> In the referenced message, Gary E. Miller said:
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Stephen Griffin wrote:
> > > So, if people picked better providers, they wouldn't need to multihome.
> > > You feel you need to multihome, because you keep picking DSL, which just
> > > isn't a good choce for "mission critical applications".
> >
> > PSI could be next. They are not DSL. If I still had a PSInet connection
> > I would sure want it multihomed.
>
> I don't see how this changes anything. DSL is a subset of the "not good"
> variety, not the complete set. If I had "mission critical applications"
> I would probably include companies that are likely to file for Chapter 7
> or Chapter 11 in the "not good" variety.
umm, perhaps you might have a better term than just "DSL". it's pretty
common to supply DS1 circuits over HDSL lines now-a-days. so, one of
our T1's looks identical (even to the bumbling ILEC "technicians")
to two $40/month residential DSL lines. up to the DSLAM and beyond,
i would assume...
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
