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cyber-redundancy

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Thu Jan 19 17:36:39 2006

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 [email protected] wrote:
> Agree that a level of security is required, but the real value is in
> customers like banks knowing where their fiber is, so when they lease
> service for a back up provider they know it is not in the same ditch.

Does the bank actually need that information?  Or does there need to
be a way for the two providers to do conflict detection between their
design layout groups?  You don't need copies of all provider's fiber
maps to do conflict detection for a particular group of circuits.