[10783] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: MCI & This weeks Net comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (henryc@oar.net)
Wed Mar 9 09:25:32 1994
From: henryc@oar.net
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 05:46:13 -0500
To: gwh@crl.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>There's a great way to make sure this and that allotted bandwidth
>share different physical paths. Buy from two different carriers.
>As long as you can find carriers who don't share the same buildings
>somewhere in between, you can almost certainly get physically diverse
>lines to anywhere... and there are only a couple of spots where
>so many carriers are in one building that it's hard to find a way
>around it [though it seems like the LA Quake found one of them...].
Ummm, this isn't necessarily true. Many carriers share long-haul
facilities, so merely buying from different providers doesn't get
you anything. When you're buying a circuit for redundancy, you have
to make sure that it actually runs a different path, and you have to
involve the technical folks from your carrier to ensure that happens.
henry
