Comment Re:And you all still don't need it (Score 1) 47
Some providers will offer redundant links, even geographically separated redundant links (fibres enter the building though 2 separate ducts, head off in 2 different directions back to 2 different exchanges via 2 different routes... of course, no-one wants to pay for that so they very rarely actually do it.
If you buy "dark fibre" then you needn't care about a one provider's hardware/network being subject to a particular failure as you're only using a length of glass they happened to provide. Again though, is spendy.