North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?
Sean Figgins wrote:
I have to disagree... About two years ago, maybe less, Sprint was doing some maintenance in California and was moving stuff through an alternate path in Arizona. However, while the CA path was off, someone took a backhoe to the AZ path. Neither the planned outage, the cut, nor myself were in the same state (I'm in Nevada). It didn't matter how many circuits I had with Sprint, because none of them worked, including my Sprint cell phone. However, I was still on the air because my other providers were unaffected. Locally, yeah, the path in the ground are probably the same. But beyond that, it can matter, and I strongly recommend multihoming if the story above is something their organization would like to be protected from. ~Seth
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