[asterisk-users] Teliax Quality of Service

[Mark Coccimiglio]

Steve Totaro wrote:

>What if a train derails and slices through the main fiber connections.  
>OK, so you have XO, Global Crossing, Verizon, and UCN all for 
>redundancy.  Well guess what?  They are all most likely running over 
>those strands of fiber.  You better have a VSAT connection too!
>  
>
That's why I lease a few servers in a data center on other side of the 
country.  Setup in a "hot stand-by" state.  Its that peace-of-mind you 
can't buy any way else.  So it costs a few hundred dollars a month 
(actually less then $500).  It  kicks in to take-up capacity when my 
main servers gets "real busy" or go off-line for maintenance.  Its 
instant and automatic.  Ok sure it took a lot of planning to get it 
right, but that's what I get paid to do. 

Single point of failure should NEVER completely disable your company.  
Yes outages happen and backhoe's cut fibre all the time.  From within 
this stuff can make one's life rather difficult, but from the outside it 
should be almost unnoticed. When was the last time you noticed an outage 
at Google, Microsoft or the DoD?  Do you think they don't happen? 

Its not that difficult or all that expensive if planned and implemented 
properly. 

Mark C.

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