> > perhaps. but given a clean slate, would you: > > 1) live with more redundancy in the core and hope that you don't lose > access to things downstream from a problem (or the problemchild > itself) > 2) think about a solution to provide OOB access via another infrastructure? > > > Presume you can figure the costs as well so loss of a > node/set-of-nodes SLA-wise is more expensive than 1yr of oob access? > > -chris >
for those w/ OOB built on PSTN or other non-IP based fabrics, how much would it hurt if the PSTN went away? /bill