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At 09:46 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Bill St. Arnaud wrote: >> Define "reliable". > >Good point. Many carriers and telco manufacturers are coming to the >Internet business saying that we have the knowledge and expertise to build >99.99999+ reliable networks - therefore eventually we are going to take over >the business. Reliable is easy to define in terms of voice calls. But it >has whole different set of meanings in the IP world, which most carriers and >telco manufacturers fail to understand. For example I can have a 99.9999+ >SONET network, but if I can't access my DNS root server, then I clearly >don't have a reliable network. Bingo. - paul
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