Andy, all good points (as per your norm)

From a large corp side, without our redundancy via TelstraClear today we would have lost 3 of our major newspapers. So full vendor redundancy works, it just costs more.





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Andy Linton <asjl@citylink.co.nz>

20/06/2005 05:01 p.m.

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Re: [nznog] Outage update from Telecom





So is this a good time to ask about the design of a network that concentrates
so much of its core service in Auckland? Is TelstraClear's network design any
better?

How many regional providers were unable to talk to others in the same region
because everything (?) is hauled back to Auckland?

Does having Domestic Internet Service from Telecom and TelstraClear
concentrated between these two "Tier 1" providers seem like a good idea?

Does a network of regional Exchanges have any value?

If TelstraClear had been peering at the Exchanges would their connectivity to
Telecom's Tier 2 customers been disrupted as much?

As Telecom customers you should demand answers about their failure of course
but you also should be thinking about how you can have things in place to
route round failures as well.


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