North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: multi-homing fixed
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Randy Bush wrote: > > how many providers have multiple POP's in a city that are _completely > > redundant_? That is, they can operate _fully_ with one POP out of > > service? > none can operate *fully*, as a customer access line pretty much has to > terminate in a single router which can, and eventually will, fail. > but, most large providers have more than one pop in the largest cities, > bay area, nyc, dee cee, etc. and those pops are redundantly and diversely > wired. if not, don't buy from them. life can be simple. So we don't want to force networks in the default-free zone to buy bigger routers with more memory, but it's ok to force them to essentially build a second network by having redundant pops in every city? I'm sure the router vendors and colo builders would love this idea, but I don't think throwing hardware at the problem will help in the long run. Iljitsch van Beijnum
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