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1:Why is it important to consider link capacities when designing redundancy?
2:Why is designing redundancy in the core easier than at other layers?
3:If all the core routers are in one building, what is a natural way to provide redundancy?
4:How many links on a ring core can fail before at least one section of the core is isolated?
5:Do ring designs provide consistent hop count through the core network when a link fails?
6:What ring technologies provide redundancy at Layer 2?
7:Do redundant ring technologies provide redundancy against failed devices?
8:Given a full mesh core with 25 routers, how many paths would there be through the network?
9:What method does a Cisco router use to differentiate between routes from two different routing protocols? ...

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