Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <16990.55949.44642.561347 () roam psg com>, Randy Bush writes:
> > you'll never get better redundancy than having more than one carrier.
>
> very often, they buy segments from eachother, run in the same
> trench, change the dlr six months later, ...  trust and test
> just as you would a single carrier.  trust 0 test 100.

s/in the same trench/as different colors on the same fiber/ in some 
cases...

                --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb