* Diverse paths are network connections that use different physical routes or mediums to reach the same destination12.
* Diverse paths provide redundancy and fault tolerance in case of a network failure or outage, as traffic can be rerouted to an alternative path12.
* In this scenario, the company has a secondary connection to the same ISP, but it uses a different path than the primary connection, which is experiencing an outage12.
* Therefore, the traffic can continue to flow through the secondary connection, which is a diverse path12.
* Load balancing is a technique that distributes network traffic across multiple servers or links to optimize performance and availability12. Load balancing does not necessarily imply diverse paths, as the traffic may use the same or similar routes to reach the destination12.
* Multipathing is a technique that allows a device to use more than one path to communicate with another device, such as a server or a storage array12. Multipathing can improve performance, reliability, and load balancing, but it is not the same as diverse paths, as the paths may share some common segments or components12.
* Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a protocol that allows multiple routers to act as a single virtual router for a group of hosts on a network segment12. VRRP provides redundancy and failover for the default gateway, but it does not describe the configuration of the network connections between the routers and the ISP12. References:
* 1: CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Exam Cram, 6th Edition, Chapter 2: Network Design and Implementation, p. 59-60
* 2: CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Cert Guide, 1st Edition, Chapter 3: Network Design, p. 97-98