On Friday 18 November 2005 09:42, Jørgen Hovland wrote: [...]
We have customers of so high importance, "NATO style", that we need multihomed lines to them; multihomed in the way that they have multiple lines but only to us, but if one goes down then the others are still up using HSRP, BGP etc. So should these customers perhaps get PI instead because they sooner or later will as you say "learn" that we cannot provide a good service?
Joergen, yes that are connectivity resilience issues with a strong relation to the ISP. You probably do not need PI for that. What I'm talking about is 2 or 3 providers that provide worldwide service between a large number of locations. Contracts are rebid with regular intervals (is required). Individual circuits are can be provided by local providers or national networks and NATO owned circuits. In other words, a true multi provider environment. We are not speaking about internet service but transmission services for enterprice VPNs. [...]
Joergen Hovland
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