cyber-redundancy

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 sgorman1 () gmu edu wrote:
> Agree that a level of security is required, but the real value is in
> customers like banks knowing where their fiber is, so when they lease
> service for a back up provider they know it is not in the same ditch.

Does the bank actually need that information?  Or does there need to
be a way for the two providers to do conflict detection between their
design layout groups?  You don't need copies of all provider's fiber
maps to do conflict detection for a particular group of circuits.