Perhaps if you hadn't hijacked this thread immediately into a tedious sales
pitch, this wouldn't have become an equally tedious pissing match about the
pros and cons of different resilience mechanisms. The very fact that you've
sent 50% of the messages on this thread in an engineering forum should
Hold on, Nick.
1. Choose whatever route protection method you want. MPLS fast reroute (not
really that fast but probably adequate for lots of IP traffic), traditional SDH
50 millisecond failover, optical protection schemes, etc.
I don't care. It is not the point.
2. For small players and small
On 10/04/2015 18:17, Rod Beck wrote:
> A single protected circuit is easier.
easier for what?
You end up paying 2x for a mechanism which still has a single point of
failure designed in to your underlying network infrastructure - namely the
routers connected to each end - while completely failing
