Stephen Griffin wrote:
In the referenced message, Roeland Meyer said: <snip>
My latest quote for a new DSL connection is 42 days. T1s are 6-8 weeks. Bigger pipes are 2-6 months for the fastest response, many cases are longer.
Back to business failures, the DSL world is looking rocky at best. Rythms isn't looking very solid and neither is Covad. Some of the NorthPoint customers are not going with either, electing to go with the local RBOC instead (despite the hassles and long lead-times). What many businesses really need is true multi-homing. <snip>
So, if people picked better providers, they wouldn't need to multihome. You feel you need to multihome, because you keep picking DSL, which just isn't a good choce for "mission critical applications".
UUNet had some sort of routing problem a few days ago, according to reports on NANOG. I guess UUNet isn't on your list of providers to pick either, eh? A few years ago the network supporting the Chicago commodities exchange died, and was out for a week. That was a major carrier. As others have argued, EVERYONE has problems at some point in time. Some applications are critical enough that multi-homing is a necessity. Ultimately people with the applications which require it will insist on having the redundancy. The cost isn't necessarily the issue, especially when the cost of not having redundancy is financial ruin, or risking people's lives. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie dts@senie.com Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com