On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:57 -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > Would you rather your ISP not maintain their devices? Are the > > consequences "so bad" of a 30 minute outage that your business > > is severely impacted? > > > > - Jared > > You had me up until that line. > > That should be expanded a little ... > > First, I'd say, yes - many businesses would be severely impacted and may even > have consequential issues if they had to sustain a 30 minute outage. Suppose > for a moment they couldn't process money machines transactions for 30 > minutes; or Netflix couldn't serve content for 30 minutes; or youporn was > offline for 30 minutes. > > The question should be more along the lines of, "why aren't you multihomed in > a way that would make a 30 minute outage (which is inevitable) irrelevant to > you? > > >
multihomed or simply redundantly equipped to switch over faster ?
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