Just a couple quick points...
You mentioned you are 75 miles from the nearest telco-hotel. We are 200
miles from the nearest telco POP. There are ways to be redundant in
these rural markets without it costing you a fortune.
Next, being multi-homed is different than a redundant links to towers or
redundant AP's, etc. because if your one connection goes down so do ALL
of your customers... if you have a single AP or single backhaul fail,
not ALL of your customers are down.
We currently have three providers and I am able to sleep at night... we
see BGP bounces and drops all the time (across all of them)... plus
their scheduled maintenance windows do not affect us at all... we could
completely loose a provider now and not even tell the difference.
I would suggest everyone look into _some_ type of redundant connection
on your upstream. It wasn't that long ago that AT&T had a major BGP
blowup and 50% of their network was down for 8-10 hours. Could your ISP
survive that type of outage?
Travis
Microserv
John Scrivner wrote:
Matt,
Charter Pipeline in this market is not multi-homed. It costs me about
$40K per year to be multi-homed. I do not see it as a necessity. That
is MY opinion. It costs Joe User about $40 per month more to be
multi-homed in my market. It is what I suggest to anyone who says they
depend on their Internet for their livelihood. Why would you you not
consider this a logical solution for your customer?
If I multi-home my upstream but not my backhaul then that is a point
of failure. If I multi-home my upstream and my backhaul but my AP for
that sector is not duplicated with a backup fail over unit then that
is a point of failure. If I do not have two subscriber CPE at each
customer location then that becomes a point of failure. The smarter
approach in my opinion is to sell two separate services to your
mission critical customers from two separate providers and link
through a fail over router. At least that becomes the single only
point of failure in the solution. But you know what, you should do it
however you want because you own your business and that is YOUR
choice. If you think you can make your system never fail and still
earn a profit then more power to you. I would rather sell decent
quality broadband service, make some money and use secondary broadband
providers in my area as fail over for those customers who demand near
perfection. I am a smaller operator in a rural area and this is the
trade off I choose to make to deliver the best value.
Scriv
Matt Liotta wrote:
George Rogato wrote:
You know, this really is the answer. Two different isp's
I've had the customers over the years, that want 10- 9's because
their business depends upon the internet, but then they don't want
to pay an extra 30 - 40.00 per month to get it.
So you would recommend to your customer to have two different ISPs,
but for your business, which is an ISP... you don't think you should
be multi-homed?
-Matt
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