After reading this discussion on network topology, I learned a lot. But as a non-expert, I was left with this one question after reading all of the above:
Hypothetically should the Highway fail (for any reason), would the Pnodes and Vnodes already synced and in committee be able to continue P2P functioning (achieve consensus/produce blocks) for the network?
I want to make sure I understand the sentence “We are not switching to fully using P2P connection, both Highway and NAT traversal methods will be used.” Using P2P and Highway in parallel could mean one still functions partially without the other (albeit less efficiently), but using P2P AND Highway interdependently would mean if one fails so does the other. Could you clarify this for a not so technically savvy interested reader?