Most isps barely have the two connections, remember when telstra's Sea-me-we cable was cut by an anchor. They didn't have enough bandwidth on their failover links to provide there customers with international bandwidth, let alone their resale customers. They had to go out and buy some more of the southern cross cables bandwitdth. It was still a month of slow internets. Or the time in the late 90's when half of US sites weren't available because Telstra's peering with an American Telco who only had one east/west coast link, that just happened to go through a train tunnel and came lose from the ceiling, the train broke that link.
What I don't get is why they didn't do something like that, re-route their traffic over a telstra pipe and absorb the cost, or re-route via Perth->Darwin->Brisbane, I am pretty sure they have a link that does that. Realistically though this was a very isolated incodent, both links going down at the same time, as someone said I don't think we will see this very often. It doesn't mean it isn't redundant, or that it wouldn't survive a Nuclear blast, it was just bad luck. I would hate to be the contracter who ripped up the cable... On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Null Ack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even still though, only two points for major backbone connectivity is > pretty lame for a major ISP especially considering the national > peering that is going on between many ISPs. > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- Regards Morgan Storey,A+, MCSE:Security. Senior Network and Security Consultant.
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