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RE: Discussion point: Telco quality?


From: "Bill St. Arnaud" <bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:28:08 -0400

Paul:

Although the telcos talk a great deal about SONET rings and how reliable the
telco circuits are and so forth its is surprising how few major Internet
trunks are carried on SONET rings.  And yet the Internet manages to carry
on. Despite some local inconviences mot Internet users never notice these
outages which goes to show how resilient the Internet really is.

It begs the question then, if the Internet can work quite well today without
all the supposed telco 99.99999+, do we really need telco "reliability" -
SONET rings etc?

As you know it is our contention that you don't need it.  We believe that a
99.9999+ reliable Internet can be built without the underlying (supposedly
"relaible") telco infrastructure.

Bill

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Bill St Arnaud
Director Network Projects
CANARIE
bill.st.arnaud () canarie ca
http://tweetie.canarie.ca/~bstarn

 

 



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
Paul Ferguson
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 7:21 PM
To: nanog () merit edu
Subject: Discussion point: Telco quality?


This latest fiber cut just kind of jarred my brain into the
realization of what "telco quality" services really boils down to.

In the end, all services, both traditional telephony services and
data services, are more alike than people give them credit for.  :-)

- paul




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