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RE: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)
From: "Bora Akyol" <bora () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:55:33 -0800
It needs to be as reliable as the services that depend on it. E.g. if bank A is using the Internet exclusively without leased line back up to run its ATMs, or to interface with its customers, then it needs to be VERY reliable. If it's just my kid checking his email on AOL, probably not that reliable. As more and more critical services/infrastructure moves to the IP/MPLS, the expectations in terms of reliability go up every year. The real questions are: * How much are the customer's willing to pay for it? * What kind of reporting/management infrastructure we have to enforce/monitor the reliability commitment in the SLA? The discussion today about FR/ATM running over an MPLS core was very interesting since bank A may in fact think they have a back up FR circuit but they may not know that their FR circuit is in fact running over the same IP/MPLS core. Surprise, surprise :-) Bora ps. I am located about 100 miles south of SF and I was very happy that my cable modem service was up all day :-)
Current thread:
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage), (continued)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Petri Helenius (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Jared Mauch (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Petri Helenius (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Matthew Crocker (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Jeff S Wheeler (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Matthew Crocker (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Matthew Crocker (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Dave Stewart (Feb 25)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Paul Vixie (Feb 25)
- How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat) Steve Gibbard (Feb 25)
- RE: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat) Bora Akyol (Feb 25)
- Expectations or It can't happen to me (was Re: How Reliable) Sean Donelan (Feb 26)
- Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat) joshua sahala (Feb 25)
- Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat) joe mcguckin (Feb 26)
- Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat) Eric Kuhnke (Feb 26)