Subject: Re: MGC failure

From: Tom-PT Taylor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:51:29 -0400

The problem you postulate is really one of MGC availability.  If the MGC is
highly available, the MG doesn't have to worry about extraordinary measures
for failure detection.  How MGC vendors achieve high availability of MGCs is
a proprietary issue.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashok Khuntia [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 10:29 AM
> To:   Taylor, Tom-PT [CAR:B901-I:EXCH]
> Cc:   [email-masked]
> Subject:      Re: MGC failure
>
> Tom,
>
> Good point.
>
> But how does one make the MG-MGC interoperable with a proprietary
> solution? If a customer is buying MGC from one vendor and MG from another
> vendor, they should work. With a  proprietary solution the customer will
> be bound to a single vendor for MG and MGC.
>
        [[TomT]]  ...