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The article mentions private network, is this still the case? Did they run network lines directly to terminal locations?
by chrischen 11y ago
The article mentions private network, is this still the case? Did they run network lines directly to terminal locations?
- apaprocki 11y agoYes, we run one of the largest (if not largest) private financial network in the world. Something like 180+ countries, close to 1,000 core routers, etc. with proper DR (dual-homing, separate fiber, risers). It's not like we run a NOC in each customer's office. It is all standard stuff -- you concentrate in big cities and run lines to individual customers. Lines are exactly the same type of lines you'd provision for Internet access (anything from a T1 to OC-3 and beyond, metro ethernet, etc.) You can certainly connect to us over the public Internet as well -- but you have to factor in down-time, latency, and other factors. There are big Internet outages that have happened in past years (e.g. anchors cutting cables) where we kept our customers online while the Internet was down in the entire country.