[dboreham]

They all likey traverse the same physical path and would all be taken out by the same gravel truck hitting a pole. The two connection thing was I think more about defense against random retail connectivity flaps (someone decides to upgrade a router's firmware and just takes the town offline, meanwhile nobody answers support calls, that sort of thing).

[bombcar]

Yeah true multihoming is expensive and involves things like hiring people to actually inspect the physical lines and Make sure they don’t run down the same street at some point (and be subject to the same backhoe of fiber death)

[remram]

True. I thought they wanted BGP to implement multihoming but upon re-reading they needed it anyway for other reasons.

[dboreham]

BGP would be to allow fail over of some service from their primary colo.