Re: ARCOS Outage

[Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog () panix com>]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:31:11AM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> I wonder if having a spare card there would have been cheaper than
> this outage and resulting flights and labour?

It unquestionably would have cheaper to have a spare for that card at
that location.  What might not have been cheaper, though, is having a
spare for *every* type of card that could fail, *everywhere* those
cards are deployed.

> > Yup, there is a defective card in the Bahamas. They should be flying in
> > this

     -- Brett