Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

[Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>]

At 01:37 PM 10/7/2005, you wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:
>
> > Take-away: Do not single home. I'm shocked folks aren't figuring this out.
> > If you are a webhoster or enterprise and your business model can 
> not support
> > multiple Internet pipes, than you have a suboptimal business model (to put
> > it lightly)
>
> Or "single-home" to a tier-2 -- or tier-1.5, or whatever you want to call it
> in marketing newspeak -- that provides multihoming of their own networks,
> and get a netblock from their space.
>
> Often, that can be more cost effective (even these depeering situations
> notwithstanding) than single-homing to a tier-1.

Until your local loop to that sole provider dies, or you want to play 
one off another price-wise and don't want to renumber.

Multihoming is backhoe insurance, backbone insurance, and portability 
insurance.