I scanned over several posts about essentially spreading out your network so I thought I'd give interesting input from a large corporations POV.
My company has three of the largest internet providers in the area coming into the heart of their international intranet splitting off in all sorts of complex ways. The arguably most important part being two rics, one of which is an exact mirror of the first, and both have their own redudant hardware inside. All of which can failover if need be.
I wasn't around for the design of the corporate network as a whole, but from what I gather there is no connection that does not have at least two paths. It's extremely impressive, at least to me.
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I scanned over several posts about essentially spreading out your network so I thought I'd give interesting input from a large corporations POV.
My company has three of the largest internet providers in the area coming into the heart of their international intranet splitting off in all sorts of complex ways. The arguably most important part being two rics, one of which is an exact mirror of the first, and both have their own redudant hardware inside. All of which can failover if need be.
I wasn't around for the design of the corporate network as a whole, but from what I gather there is no connection that does not have at least two paths. It's extremely impressive, at least to me.