North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged NetworkThreat)
> So now we have a partial X and partial >Y network, X goes down, and chances are your network got hammered >like an icecube in a blender set to Frappe. If IP networks become the single layer 2/3 telecommunications technology in the world then we can never let that Frappe happen. We will have to find ways to deliberately build networks using vendor X and vendor Y in such a way that the sum total is more reliable than a pure X or a pure Y network. --Michael Dillon |