12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
12:05 p.m.
On 12 Jan 2005, at 11:53, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
You mean you'd *request* a different path from different providers.
Provisioning a circuit from two different ^providers^, other than your OC3 provider.
I realise that's what you meant. My point was that competing, differently-named and organisationally-separate suppliers of network services frequently use common suppliers for metro fibre, long-haul transport, building access, etc. Just because you buy different services from different providers doesn't mean there will be no common points of failure. Joe