I can't stress enough the importance of controlling your own route and even cable diversity. Require KMZs of the routes for any services you take (especially single path Wave type services). Put them in the contracts if you can.

I've had at least 1 situation where we had vendor diversity and what was supposed to be route diversity- 3 separate waves coming south and southeast out of a datacenter to 3 separate cities. Imagine my surprise when we took a outage one day that severed all 3 circuits. Yes all 3 circuits, going to 3 separate cities, on 3 separate carrier/s DWDM platforms, all happened to show up in the same sheath of cable at one location that happened to experience backhoe fade. Was not a good day....

James W. Breeden

Managing Partner

Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis Telecom | Pines Media

PO Box 1063 | Smithville, TX 78957

Email: james@arenalgroup.co | office 512.360.0000 | cell 512.304.0745 | www.arenalgroup.co

On 12/17/18 3:51 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
>
> One question, how much people care about vendor diversity? I do and did
> care. I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. Do you care? Thank you

There are advantages and disadvantages to vendor diversity.

As advantages, you won't be subject to complete loss of connection
because of a single dispute or provisioning/control plane issue with
that one vendor. You can also more easily pit vendors against each
other for pricing if you are already vendor-diverse.

As a disadvantage, not only does vendor diversity obviously not imply
route diversity, but it will completely put the onus on you to ensure
route diversity if you want it. With a single vendor, you can demand
that your circuits have route diversity and, assuming you trust them,
they have all the information they need to make that happen for you.
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Brandon Martin