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Typically most institutions such as hospitals have multi T1 lines from separate providers. Ignoring piracy/automated systems, sometimes isps just have outages,
by dgrin91 3y ago
Typically most institutions such as hospitals have multi T1 lines from separate providers. Ignoring piracy/automated systems, sometimes isps just have outages, so it's the same problem.
- ttymck 3y agoI'm not sure if you're able to comment, but my intuitive speculation is that institutions have ISP connections that are in what I imagine to be a "dedicated service" tier. My hunch is that these accounts would be exempt from certain actions compared to residential accounts.
- doubleg72 3y agoExactly, two ISPs with BGP.
- greyface- 3y agoT1 lines, which max out at 1.544Mbit, for internet access in 2023?
- doubleg72 3y agoNo, Verizon phased out T1 which is now PRI handoff via fiber. That’s only for phone service in most cases.
- tenebrisalietum 3y agoIn my experience, a lot of places that want to do redundant wired Internet have the local fiber provider and local cable provider going into some failover or SD-WAN setup. T1 would be rare (but possible) for Internet access, not rare for phone (funny thing is the phone might be SIP over Internet over T1). You might even have crappy situations due to people not understanding what they are buying (or other weird reasons) where 2 ISPs share 1 LEC circuit, e.g. a single physical fiber line. But anyway, a provider cutting you off permanently is more than an outage. You need to get another ISP.