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Re: BBN outage


From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus () professionals com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:06:54 -0700 (PDT)


On an unrelated note, I still have hard time believing
companies like Sun are single homed through bbnplanet
and have no backup when things like this happen.

Why, just a few weeks ago there was a big discussion here on the
NANOG list that definitively proved that end-user multihoming
REDUCED reliability for that customer. BBN is a big company...
why would you want to risk all the complexity of having a 
backup circuit to someone else?

Because loss of connectivity for a day costs 10's of thousands
of dollars and, evidently, even the "big" companies are not
immune from "acts of god" like what happened today.

Sanjay.
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