Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break

[Keith <twigles () liberalhedonism com>]

> However, if you put 15G down your "20G" path, you have no redundancy.
> In a cut, dropping 5G on the floor, causing 33% packet loss is not
> "up", it might as well be down.
>
> If your redundancy solution is at Layer 3, you have to have the
> policies in place that you don't run much over 10G across your dual
> 10G links or you're back to effectively giving up all redundancy.

This can be a valid solution.  Our company has some multimedia traffic 
that can be axed if a catastrophe befalls our tubes.  Obviously we'd 
prefer not to drop (or ax, as it were) any type of traffic, but it's a 
monetary decision.