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Re: multi homing pressure

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Wed Oct 19 15:59:00 2005 
> Well, not necessarily.
> 
> Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in
> write-ups like this.  When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has
> multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock from the tier-2's
> aggregations, that means one less ASN and one or more less routes in the
> global table.
> 
> It's a Good Thing(tm).
> 
Not for the single-homed customer when the Tier-2 service is interrupted.

Owen



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