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yup yup, agreed... Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Pendergrass" <[email protected]> To: "Brian" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:13 PM Subject: RE: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast > > You always have to specify to the carrier that you want diversity. For > longhaul, sometimes even big name providers will subcontract to another > provider. For instance, you may get 1 OC-3 from MCI and another from Sprint, > but both might be going through the same Qwest OC-192 from Denver to San > Jose. I've seen it happen and it's always ugly for the buyer when someone > backhoes it. You have to specify and sometimes pay more to be certain of > your diversity. > > Greg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Brian > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast > > > > Think about your last statement. If someone is homed to 2 different > providers, and 1 circuit goes down, the other should keep them up. > > Brian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Patrick Greenwell" <[email protected]> > To: "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:00 PM > Subject: Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast > > > > > > On 29 Aug 2001, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 29 August 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote: > > > > > Routing around the problem, what a concept. More backup for the > 2xt1 shop > > > > > to contimue doing it.. > > > > > > > > I'm still awaiting the list of providers that never have a circuit go > > > > down. :-) > > > > > > Every carrier has had a circuit go down. > > > > On that we agree. > > > > > The difference is the carrier's response, in particular how well they > > > keep their customers informed. > > > > That is certainly *a* point of differentiation, however if the goal of > > these "basement dual-homers" is to not suffer downtime due to the > > outage of a single provider(much like the organizations that "matter"), > > all the responsiveness in the world from a provider whose circuit to > > one of the "basement dual-homers" which has failed isn't going to prevent > > them from being down, is it? > > > > > > >
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