Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Tue, 03 April 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> At 18:35 03/04/01, Jesper Skriver wrote:
>
> > Don't know how the world looks like in the US, but here a SDH/Sonet
> > provider will never guarentee diversity of his/her circuit to that of a different provider, 
>
>         Interesting, though they do guarantee that to NATO
> circuits.  smd, are you able to get diverse local paths over there ?

NATO doesn't get guaranteed diverse circuits.  However, during an emergency,
NATO does get first dibs on any circuit still working.  So, if you have
diverse circuits, and one goes down, its possible your other circuit will
be pre-empted if it is the only way to restore the NATO circuit.