Although a given ISP may have some problems, we've found that the Internet
is extremely reliable. Packets will find a way to their destination. If
you (and your trading partners) maintain dual ISPs, you get around the
potential single point of failure.
Andy
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Paul Krikke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU> on 10/25/2000
09:46:00 AM
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All that being said, my biggest concern surrounds the issue of using the
Internet for time sensitive EDI (and most of ours is!). I just can't
depend on a "best effort", inherently unreliable network with no central
point of responsibility for business-critical data.
And (here's the shot across the bow) anyone who tells me that *today* the
Internet provides robust, reliable connectivity gets to explain away the
network outages we've seen at major ISP's over the past year or two. I
compare that to my ANX connection, where I've had 0 minutes of unplanned
downtime since the day we started using the ANX connection in production
(September 1998). That is the quality of service I need so that I can
*guarantee* my customers that we'll meet *their* stringent requirements.
Paul Krikke
Taylor Steel Inc.
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