[85330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Fri Oct 7 14:04:24 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:56:21 -0400
To: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0510071334450.4052@jvc>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 01:37 PM 10/7/2005, you wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:
>
> > Take-away: Do not single home. I'm shocked folks aren't figuring this out.
> > If you are a webhoster or enterprise and your business model can
> not support
> > multiple Internet pipes, than you have a suboptimal business model (to put
> > it lightly)
>
>Or "single-home" to a tier-2 -- or tier-1.5, or whatever you want to call it
>in marketing newspeak -- that provides multihoming of their own networks,
>and get a netblock from their space.
>
>Often, that can be more cost effective (even these depeering situations
>notwithstanding) than single-homing to a tier-1.
Until your local loop to that sole provider dies, or you want to play
one off another price-wise and don't want to renumber.
Multihoming is backhoe insurance, backbone insurance, and portability
insurance.
