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On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, David J. Schmidt wrote: > There's another thing that hasn't been mentioned during this thread. > > Suppose BBN did ALL of the necessary upgrades to prevent this sort of > outage. Not only at this site, but at all of their sites. Great. > Now they come to you, their customer and say "Well, we've made all of > these improvements, but we now have to raise your rates by 50% to > cover the costs." No way, most of the things mentioned that need to be done before you put a build a pop are free. Things like generators are not a lot of money, and a nice little manual bypass switch is about 2K. Things can be done, I don't think all of us should build POPs 100 feet under the ground, but there are things we can do that can help. > How many of you would simply change providers? > > An editorial in Unix Review (October issue I believe) talked about > some outages that their site had suffered and mentioned other > outages. Then the writer asked the question "Who's at fault?". His > answer was that the consumer was at fault, because the consumer is > unwilling to pay the rates necessary to pay for the level of service > that they demand. No way, this stuff is not that much. A generator cost less then a router, and most of the things you can do to help are free. > We all scream for fixes when these outages occur. How much are we > (and our customers) willing to pay for them? Look, I don't think people are asking for 100% uptime, but 99.999 is a valid goal, and can be reached. I had to learn that hard way that a generator at every pop was something was saved you money. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email [email protected] Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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