[41165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Thu Aug 30 12:29:01 2001
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
> > That is certainly *a* point of differentiation, however if the goal of
> > these "basement dual-homers" is to not suffer downtime due to the
> > outage of a single provider(much like the organizations that "matter"),
> > all the responsiveness in the world from a provider whose circuit to
> > one of the "basement dual-homers" which has failed isn't going to prevent
> > them from being down, is it?
> >
>
> Patrick, it's all in being able to inform YOUR customers.
John, from a customer perspective it's all about staying UP.
