[AusNOG] Vocus vs. Pipe - Was: Vocus peering traffic missingfrom PIPE-IX?

Joshua D'Alton joshua at railgun.com.au
Thu Nov 8 16:32:21 EST 2012


And even more scarily, emergency services like hospitals. Not sure if
people are familiar with how it is run in VIC, but it is extremely scary
the lack of redundancy in what the government considers a critical
emergency system, which is barely better than a pair of tin cans and some
string.

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Chris Ricks <chris.ricks at securepay.com.au>wrote:

> Regardless, it doesn't seem to happen at all.
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> the list goes on - there is a massive over representation of one (or at
> most, 2) of the GoF providing IP and data services here.
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> On 08/11/12 16:07, Scott Weeks wrote:
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> > --- chris.ricks at securepay.com.au wrote:
> > From: Chris Ricks <chris.ricks at securepay.com.au>
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> > They could peer right now if they chose to, but the vast majority of
> > large corporates seem to have a poorly thought out single-provider
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> > That's when it is a business decision, rather than a technically proper
> > decision.  When you listen to corporate earnings calls you usually hear
> > it as 'we reduced operating expenses on our internet connectivity' sort
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