[BC] Program transmission suggestions

[Mike McCarthy]

I would not even trust the same provider over greater distances as 
they might buy aggregated fiber space from common carriers MCI, AT&T, 
Level III, etc.  If they're paying a discounted rate for that space, 
they might be pre-emptable for other higher priority on-demand 
users...like the fed's.

If you're in the same service area or city, that's one thing.  Go out 
of area, inter-LaTA, or inter-carrier,  all bets are not even taken, 
let alone off when a worse case scenario occurs.  Unless I or my 
carrier has complete tariffed control over the bandwidth (like 
T-1's), long distance P2P IP connections are treading on thin ice no 
matter what anyone says about how reliable their connection has BEEN.

I have zero interest in the past tense.  I want to know it will stay 
up under all circumstances.  IP doesn't do that for me if it goes 
anywhere I don't control the bandwidth pipeline.

MM

At 11:34 AM 4/25/2008 -0700, Dana  Puopolo wrote
>This is exactly why I recommend havingthe same backbone provider at both
>locations., That way, your packets never go out over the public Internet.
>Instead they stay within that provider's network.  Where providers peer is
>where packets get lost!
>
>In other words, try to get Verizon on both ends, or AT&T or some other
>provider. Covad covers the entire country and is a good choice where the IBOC
>s are different at each end of the link.