Question 550
In a technical design review: During a predeployment review for a financial firm WAN, the team discovers this design gap: two ISP circuits terminate on one edge router and the design claims hardware-resilient WAN connectivity. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Two external circuits on one router still share a single customer edge hardware failure domain. The correct engineering response is: Use separate redundant edge devices and verify upstream termination diversity. The observable check is: Loss of either edge router leaves an alternate WAN path functional within the agreed outage budget. The financial firm WAN acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
Two external circuits on one router still share a single customer edge hardware failure domain. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Single-homing leaves a single path failure that routing protocols cannot repair without alternate physical access. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
Two external circuits on one router still share a single customer edge hardware failure domain. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Stateful security and asymmetric routing can disrupt sessions even when both paths are individually reachable. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
Two external circuits on one router still share a single customer edge hardware failure domain. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Metro Ethernet can present an Ethernet service to customer edges without requiring a private optical system. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.