[67952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Thu Feb 26 09:56:00 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:54:12 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> So now we have a partial X and partial
>Y network, X goes down, and chances are your network got hammered
>like an icecube in a blender set to Frappe.
If IP networks become the single layer 2/3 telecommunications
technology in the world then we can never let that Frappe happen.
We will have to find ways to deliberately build networks using
vendor X and vendor Y in such a way that the sum total is more
reliable than a pure X or a pure Y network.
--Michael Dillon
