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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Broken Internet?
> From: Adam Rothschild [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:23 AM > > 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? Well, all of the above, except that there is no way to tell if your upstream is losing money or not. Not if their market-communications folks know what they're doing and they're privately-held. > > 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? ;) I'm speaking from having spent many nights and week-ends waiting for the telco to bring the line back up, after my CSU lost power/went down/died/etc. That's why we went with DSL (besides straight cost). Granted, after initial build, this didn't happen. Mainly, because the CSU never went down again. > But yeah, putting all your eggs in one basket could make for a nice > single point of failure. Or calculated risk. Your call... That's my point, small shops don't have much choice. Typical Inet start-ups are cases where headcount is far less than server count. Granted, most of the H/W is in a co-lo. <sigh> You guys just don't want to allow a small business to run their own data center, do you? Can't y'all understand that there are serious business reasons for a company to do so?
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