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Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32)
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:54:05 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
Servicelevels on the Internet suck. Thats the main reason not to use it for anything important. If my frame-connection fails I open my hand and my provider pays a lot until it works again. If "the Internet fails", I have no one I can squeeze the money out of. That massively increases a FR-Providers motivation to have their network running. Penalties can never make up for a lost connection (no provider has enough cash at hand) but it is a nice PART (P=Provider).
Yeah right. That's why Worldcom's frame-relay network was "unusable" for about 10 days and took out part of the Chicago Board of Trade elecronic trading system. What's interesting is most major providers' Internet service SLA is often better than their SLA for other services, including TDM. If your Internet service has problems (not just down) you may get from 0% to 100% or more credit. But if your circuit is down, it doesn't really matter. Of course, your SLA probably depends a lot on how much you normally pay the provider. If you are buying an oc48c, you'll probably pay for a different SLA than the modem dialup account.
Current thread:
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?], (continued)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 21)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Stephen Sprunk (Nov 21)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 22)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Owen DeLong (Nov 22)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Stephen Sprunk (Nov 25)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] bmanning (Nov 26)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 27)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Owen DeLong (Nov 27)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Nils Ketelsen (Nov 22)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Nils Ketelsen (Nov 22)
- Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32) Sean Donelan (Nov 22)
- Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32) Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 22)
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- Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32) Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 23)
- large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Pekka Savola (Nov 21)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] bmanning (Nov 21)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Pekka Savola (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] bmanning (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Patrick W Gilmore (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] bmanning (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Patrick W Gilmore (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Pekka Savola (Nov 22)