[10875] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: MCI & This weeks Net comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Norman Hardy)
Sun Mar 13 06:52:32 1994
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 1994 22:56:02 -0800
To: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>, fbaker@acc.com (Fred Baker)
From: norm@netcom.com (Norman Hardy)
Cc: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>, com-priv@psi.com, gwh@crl.com
At 17:28 3/8/94 -0800, George Herbert wrote:
>There's a great way to make sure this and that allotted bandwidth
>share different physical paths. Buy from two different carriers.
I think that carriers buy capacity from each other just as power companies
do. I worked for Tymnet years ago and sometimes two carriers would go down
simultaneously.
