[8761] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NAP philosophy & IP technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Fajman)
Fri Dec 3 14:37:55 1993
To: peter@goshawk.lanl.gov
Cc: fair@apple.com, com-priv@psi.com
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@cu.nih.gov>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1993 14:33:56 EST
> I think the best way to get the reliability you are searching for is to
> get your immediate provider to build redundant infrastructure and make it
> available to you as a service. IP supports this sort of redundancy/reliability
> within a provider very well since this was one of the main drivers in
> the design of IP, and I suspect it is the most cost effective way for a
> site to get "non-stop" operation. Being compliant to the default case of
> the CIDR plan is an additional benefit of this mode of building higher
> reliability.
Well, I'm not an expert in voice telecommunications, but isn't it true that
some large corporations don't trust the reliability of a single IXC and
purchase access from multiple carriers? The Internet has not yet reached
the level of reliability of the voice network.
