Re: IXC Fiber cut Michigan

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () clark net>]

> hcb () clark NET (Howard C. Berkowitz) writes:
> > Is this another argument for SONET rings and against tree structuring?
>
> It is an argument for diversity.  SONET rings offer diversity against
> certain failure modes, but they too have other types of interesting
> failures.  SONET failures tend to be more complex, and so far seem to
> take much, much longer to fix than a simple fiber cut.
>
> SONET rings have several good points.  What is not good is thinking the
> buzzword "SONET" as uttered by salespeople (and some engineers) means more
> than it actually is.  Automatic Protection Switches exist in the copper
> world too.  Phone companies have been selling APS systems for decades, they
> still have trouble actually delivering on those promises.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
>  Affiliation given for identification not representation


Apparently, the intended humor was too obscure...I was simply referring to
the digging contractor, who was doing it to install trees -- of the wooden
sort.  No, that isn't a reference to Mr. Gore, the inventor of the Internet.