At 10:01 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
At 09:46 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Bill St. Arnaud wrote:
Define "reliable".
Good point. Many carriers and telco manufacturers are coming to the Internet business saying that we have the knowledge and expertise to build 99.99999+ reliable networks - therefore eventually we are going to take over the business. Reliable is easy to define in terms of voice calls. But it has whole different set of meanings in the IP world, which most carriers and telco manufacturers fail to understand. For example I can have a 99.9999+ SONET network, but if I can't access my DNS root server, then I clearly don't have a reliable network.
Bingo.
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