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> > On an unrelated note, I still have hard time believing > > companies like Sun are single homed through bbnplanet > > and have no backup when things like this happen. > > Why, just a few weeks ago there was a big discussion here on the > NANOG list that definitively proved that end-user multihoming > REDUCED reliability for that customer. BBN is a big company... > why would you want to risk all the complexity of having a > backup circuit to someone else? Because loss of connectivity for a day costs 10's of thousands of dollars and, evidently, even the "big" companies are not immune from "acts of god" like what happened today. Sanjay. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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