For mission critical stuff like airports I would like to think they're go for a more rigorous methodology than hope for the best on paths
For mission critical stuff like airports I would like to think they're go for a more rigorous methodology than hope for the best on paths
Then there's another faction that doesn't trust a word suppliers say, who will insist on two different suppliers, as while in theory they could be sharing the same routes, it's far less likely.
Comes down to "do you trust contracts".
Of course this is for third tier sites like branch offices. Major sites require far more oversight, including visibility of cable routes and any hops on the internal network
Usually it’s a combo of a tier 1 that decides that a resell agreement is “good enough” and “well just eat the loss” and then by the time stuff like this rolls around “we’ll get back to you” + a bunch of silly explanations that boil down to “you’re not gonna sue us though” start coming out lol