Re: Resilient Internet

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> I have a radio station customer who is utilizing one of those streaming
> services to bring their broadcast station online. We've received a
> complaint of a half dozen or so 1-second drops in connectivity over the
> Internet to this streaming service in the six or so months they've been a
> customer. I consider that pretty amazing service delivery. However, the
> customer does not. I suspect this is a layer 8 issue, but what have your
> experiences been in these kinds of situations, and what technical remedies
> would be available? I don't know what sub-second failover systems exist,
> but I'm sure they're not cost-effective if they do.


Hard to answer the question properly until the actual cause of the 1 second
drops is actually defined. Is it network buffer, routing reconvergence,
application buffer, TCP related, etc.

Sounds like the customer probably doesn't know either , but without knowing
that any possible solutions are just blind guesses.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM Mike Hammett via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> I have a radio station customer who is utilizing one of those streaming
> services to bring their broadcast station online. We've received a
> complaint of a half dozen or so 1-second drops in connectivity over the
> Internet to this streaming service in the six or so months they've been a
> customer. I consider that pretty amazing service delivery. However, the
> customer does not. I suspect this is a layer 8 issue, but what have your
> experiences been in these kinds of situations, and what technical remedies
> would be available? I don't know what sub-second failover systems exist,
> but I'm sure they're not cost-effective if they do.
>
>
>
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