Not to mention that if you're looking to do BGP, most providers won't think of letting you run BGP over anything that's not at least a T1. When I was at Intermedia, we didn't even let customer do BGP over frame relay - they had to have a fractional T1 service at minimum. -C
The technology that can be faulted, and I sincerely apologize for not being clear enough on this, is that which prevents adequate redundancy at the end-nodes. The fact that 100,000 businesses can get lopped off by a single provider business failure is pretty sad. I've tried, for over a year, to get redundant uplinks to an alternate provider (ISDN backup to xDSL). CIDR, prefix filtering, and cluelessness nail that effort every time. It doesn't seem to matter that I am more than willing to pay for it. It simply isn't available. But, it should be (I don't mean tinker-toy methods either). Before CIDR, it was. The past few quarters has shown how necessary it is. Guys, this is a huge market gap, why isn't anyone filling it?
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