On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Stephen Fisher wrote:
Most of the multi-homing talk has been about failover capabilities between different providers. What about the effects of multiple providers when neither has actually failed; such as different paths for inbound/outbound traffic. One provider may have better connectivity to x site whereas the other provider has better connectivity to y. (Or is this not as important as it used to be?)
Capacity and congestion isnt a (big) issue with bandwidth and circuits being so cheap, most corporates just need to know they can get their email and browse the web and whether it takes 70 or 140ms for data to cross the atlantic providing it pops up on their screen within a few seconds they're happy. So in this way I think the answer to your question is its not important to most multihomers but ymmv.. Steve
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:15:55AM -0700, John Neiberger wrote:
In our case, we already are multihoming and I'm considering moving away from that to a simpler solution. It's been my assertion that we didn't need to multihome in the beginning. The decision was made at a level higher than me. However, now that we have it I'm trying to determine the pros and cons related to moving to a single provider.