[42843] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Mon Sep 24 08:57:25 2001
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:58:36 +0100
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Reply-To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
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--On Monday, September 24, 2001 7:19 AM -0400 Sean Donelan
<sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> The loss of something like 60 Hudson shouldn't cause more than
> an annoying route flap in your network.
My point being that building a network which doesn't have more
than an annoying route flap, if /both/ 60 Hudson and 111 8th
avenue are lost, is extremely hard (*) (especially if it has
a transatlantic component). And that's true even if you
have your own fiber.
(*) hard means that it isn't compatible with existing topologies,
and building new ones is expensive.
Alex Bligh
Personal Capacity.
