Here in my area most of business outfits that require maximum availability of Internet or WAN conenctions have implemented dual connections from dual providers, most with a fiber/copper main and a fixed wireless backup. This trend goes from banks to Mcdonalds Gino A. Villarini gav@aeronetpr.com Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Amodio [mailto:jmamodio@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:21 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area
"Earth is a single point of failure."
On top of that, one basic principle of telecommunications: No matter how much diversity and path redundancy, tons of concrete or titanium sealed fiber vaults you have, in the data exchange between points A and B there will be always two single points of failure: A and B. IMHO, this thread is getting way off topic, boring and useless. Fiber cut is over, there will be many more, move on ... Cheers Jorge