Re: more specific routes in today reality

This however, does not mean though that multiple uplinks to more than one provider gives you more security than mulitple uplinks to one.

I completely disagree with you. Multiple links may have failure modes in addition to and identical to some of the failure modes of a single connection, but multiple links also removes a complete calls of failure modes associated with a single connection. This is a pretty fundemental tenet of communications systems in general as is not limited to IP. Peter