On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:34:35AM -0800, Roeland Meyer wrote:
DSL has always been a cheap, semi-reliable solution for people that didn't want to pay the money for a dedicated circuit.
This, I agree with.
DSL behaves like a dedicated circuit
Dedicated in what sense? "Always up" nature? Aggregation hierarchy / topology? Bandwidth, considering your provider might be _losing_ money with transit/ops/etc costs factored in, if you're using it al full line rate 24x7?
Additionally, you don't have to tune the link and it doesn't need to be hand-rebooted when the CSU/DSU drops (all the things they don't tell you about T1's).
What circuit-level fine tuning and rebooting do you speak of? Is the telco running Microsoft DACS Server(TM) in the CO? ;) But yeah, putting all your eggs in one basket could make for a nice single point of failure. Or calculated risk. Your call... -adam