[47057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Pointlessness of Five 9's Reliability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Wed Apr 24 19:58:17 2002
Date: 24 Apr 2002 19:57:46 -0400
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From: johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine)
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Even disregarding the issue of whether 99.999% network reliability is
possible, people have made it abundantly clear that they don't want
it.
In this case I define "to want" as "to be willing to pay even a little
bit extra for".
This is even the case in POTS telephony. I know lots of people who
are happy to use 2 cpm long distance from Priceline et al, even though
half the time the call doesn't go through.
--
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