[79755] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Apr 14 17:22:10 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
Luke Youngblood <lyoungblood@phonechargeinc.com>,
"'Dan Lockwood'" <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:03:09 EDT."
<16990.55949.44642.561347@roam.psg.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:20:59 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <16990.55949.44642.561347@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>
>> 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.
s/in the same trench/as different colors on the same fiber/ in some
cases...
--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
