Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY

[Paul A Vixie <vixie () mibh net>]

> It's all down to having enough spare capacity, and when you have half of
> your capacity stuck in SONET/SDH protection, you cannot use that for
> short peaks of traffic, and you dont have the option of saying, in case
> of a outage, we will suffer 20% performance drop, which on expensive
> circuits (like trans atlantic ones) could be what one wanted.

it's all down to the definition of "acceptable loss", then.