On 1/12/05 12:05 PM, "Joe Abley" <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
On 12 Jan 2005, at 11:53, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
You mean you'd *request* a different path from different providers.
Provisioning a circuit from two different ^providers^, other than your OC3 provider.
I realise that's what you meant.
My point was that competing, differently-named and organisationally-separate suppliers of network services frequently use common suppliers for metro fibre, long-haul transport, building access, etc. Just because you buy different services from different providers doesn't mean there will be no common points of failure.
Joe
Fate sharing is bad. The only way to be sure you aren't fate sharing is to request GIS data from the carriers. And even that could be wrong... - Dan --