On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 20:16, Bora Akyol wrote:
This train of thought works well for only accidental failures, unfortunately if you have an adversary that is bent on disturbing communications and damaging the critical infrastructure of a country, physical faith sharing makes things less robust than they need to be. By the way, no disagreement from me on any of the points you make. Keeping it simple and robust is definitely a good first step. Having diverse paths in the fiber infrastructure is also necessary.
I don't think faith sharing prevents us from having diverse paths, since this is where redundancy comes in. Even if all services run over the same fibre paths, there isn't any problem as long as there's a sufficient number of alternative paths in case any of the paths goe down. Cheers, -- --- Erik Haagsman Network Architect We Dare BV tel: +31.10.7507008 fax: +31.10.7507005 http://www.we-dare.nl