Is the private participant network guaranteed in terms of availability?
The private participant network is designed to be highly reliable. However, as with any commercial telecommunications service, failures can and will occur. Participants are encouraged to consider alternative access and/or contingency plans. • For either Internet or private network, are back up mechanisms recommended or required? The IESO has put in place redundancy to the point of having no single point of failure. Market participants should take this into consideration and establish alternate paths or contingency plans to accommodate their needs. • What is the customer premises equipment for connectivity to the private network? The termination equipment will be either a Motorola FRAD/Router and separate DSU/CSU, or a CISCO Router/DSU combination. This equipment will be provided by the IESO and be maintained by the IESO. The demarcation point will be the router that connects the market participant’s internal network. The market participant MUST provide the registered public IP addresse
