[10780] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: MCI & This weeks Net comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Wed Mar 9 03:39:09 1994
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 18:51:13 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 6:33 PM 3/7/94 -0800, Fred Baker wrote:
>The way our access provider (Cerfnet) tells it, there's no way to tell the
>phone company "I want this allotted bandwidth to have a different physical
>path than that bandwidth." So, we're subject to Backhoe Effect again.
It is possible to do get the telco to understand...
A client of mine back in the mid 70's was providing on-line terminals for
hospitals; They had multiple lines going to each hospital to avoid the
"backhoe effect"; One day, one hospital went down -- lo and behold, they
found out that both lines ended up on the same physical piece of copper.
Within a couple of days, Pac Bell understood the problem and found a way to
get two different physical paths from point A to point B -- and through
different switches if I recall correctly.
The catch is in finding someone that understands what you're talking about...
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Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
(415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
