On Aug 6, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > I'm curious as to your number... where is that from? > Marhsall had noted a number of 'small businesses' in the US at ~1.4m > as of ~2006ish?
Speaking as someone who does a lot of work supporting small business IT, I suspect the number is much lower. As a group, these customers tend to be extremely cost averse. Paying for a secondary access circuit may become important as cloud applications become more critical for the market segment, but existing smart NAT boxes that detect primary upstream failure and switch over to a secondary ISP will work for many cases. Yes, it's ugly, but it gets them reconnected to the off-site email server and the payment card gateway. --Chris
