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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:34:35AM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote: > > DSL has always been a cheap, semi-reliable solution for people > > that didn't want to pay the money for a dedicated circuit. This, I agree with. > DSL behaves like a dedicated circuit Dedicated in what sense? "Always up" nature? Aggregation hierarchy / topology? Bandwidth, considering your provider might be _losing_ money with transit/ops/etc costs factored in, if you're using it al full line rate 24x7? > Additionally, you don't have to tune the link and it doesn't need to > be hand-rebooted when the CSU/DSU drops (all the things they don't > tell you about T1's). What circuit-level fine tuning and rebooting do you speak of? Is the telco running Microsoft DACS Server(TM) in the CO? ;) But yeah, putting all your eggs in one basket could make for a nice single point of failure. Or calculated risk. Your call... -adam
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