Comment Re:basic economic laws don't really apply (Score 1) 406
i can understand some of the reasoning behind what they're saying, but the biggest reason the internet breaks today is because of business and politics
if everyone was giving everyone else transit for free, except for leaf networks going down, there would be no real outages. Fibre cut takes out
backbone A's connectivity to backbone B? No matter, we'll just route through C.
Things like this *can* be configured as last chance backups, but business rules dictate that you don't help out your competitors when they're down, you try and steal their customers instead.
if everyone was giving everyone else transit for free, except for leaf networks going down, there would be no real outages. Fibre cut takes out
backbone A's connectivity to backbone B? No matter, we'll just route through C.
Things like this *can* be configured as last chance backups, but business rules dictate that you don't help out your competitors when they're down, you try and steal their customers instead.
