Seeing projects like this really gives me hope about the space program. I mean, look at the ROI on this project: for a project that was only supposed to last 90 days, we've gotten over 1000 days of use out of it. Kinda makes up for the other "crater" project... =)
I get nervous every time I hear the words "self-cleaning". Reminds me of the problems in Vietnam when the military told our soldiers that the M-16 was "self-cleaning"...
Agreed. But when considering the amount of bandwidth needed for a specific institution, multihoming is sometimes cost-prohibitive. Lord knows that it'd cost a fortune to have enough multihomed bandwidth to support this institution.
Not only are businesses affected, but educational institutions are as well. At my workplace, we conduct many internet-based courses that completely *halted* when Level3 depeered Cogent. The professors of those courses had to quickly make major changes to their deadlines and course structure, to work around the outtage. That is the first time such actions have ever had to be taken here (including changes made due to hurricanes).
In the new agreement, there are clauses that state that Level3 can again try to charge Cogent if their traffic amount is grossly over that of Level3's. So, while this is definitely an improvement, it doesn't rid all potential future problems.
If anything, this definitely hammers home the idea of multihoming...
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Seeing projects like this really gives me hope about the space program. I mean, look at the ROI on this project: for a project that was only supposed to last 90 days, we've gotten over 1000 days of use out of it. Kinda makes up for the other "crater" project... =)
I get nervous every time I hear the words "self-cleaning". Reminds me of the problems in Vietnam when the military told our soldiers that the M-16 was "self-cleaning"...
Agreed. But when considering the amount of bandwidth needed for a specific institution, multihoming is sometimes cost-prohibitive. Lord knows that it'd cost a fortune to have enough multihomed bandwidth to support this institution.
Not only are businesses affected, but educational institutions are as well. At my workplace, we conduct many internet-based courses that completely *halted* when Level3 depeered Cogent. The professors of those courses had to quickly make major changes to their deadlines and course structure, to work around the outtage. That is the first time such actions have ever had to be taken here (including changes made due to hurricanes).
In the new agreement, there are clauses that state that Level3 can again try to charge Cogent if their traffic amount is grossly over that of Level3's. So, while this is definitely an improvement, it doesn't rid all potential future problems.
If anything, this definitely hammers home the idea of multihoming...
honestly: I'd rather sit and get fat, then be subjected to the unknown horrors of that bouncy-ball pit...
or, "just filter by McMAC address". That'd work, too.
What I'm not comprehending is this:
What about all the institutions (such as mine) that have a copy of Blackberry Enterprise Server? How could they (.gov) stop us from using it?
Also: we're part of the "state government". Is that included in the "government clause"?
I wondered what that bright, shiney orb in the Eastern sky was last night. Was a great view from here in Tampa.