[asterisk-users] Teliax Quality of Service

[Anthony Francis]

Mark Coccimiglio wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
What are you talking about google was completely unavailable to most of 
the country for four hours about a month ago.

Anthony