[79751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Thu Apr 14 17:08:09 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:07:25 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
Luke Youngblood <lyoungblood@phonechargeinc.com>,
'Dan Lockwood' <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <16990.55949.44642.561347@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
> > you'll never get better redundancy than having more than one carrier.
>
> very often, they buy segments from eachother, run in the same trench, change
> the dlr six months later, ... trust and test just as you would a single
> carrier. trust 0 test 100.
when this has been critical i've insisted on seeing duct maps to ensure they
really are different. but as you say even that doesnt prevent a change of path
in the future
i guess it helps us to know a bit more than the average circuit buyer tho too..
Steve
