Re: how to waste fiber (was:OT:MarketSpeak)

[Steve Meuse <smeuse () bbnplanet com>]

At 01:34 PM 10/13/1999 -0600, Danny McPherson wrote:

> Of course, more interesting than presumably transparent trunk failures in
> relation to SONET protection, are trib failures with inter-router APS on the
> trib side.  This requires a bit more attention to detail (speaking from
> experience).
>
>
> -danny

not exactly related...

The approach that I am taking for critical links (Trans-Atlantic) is to not 
trust that the vendors are getting it right the first time. We are actually 
testing protection switching end-to-end, at every LTE. Yes, this is long 
and painful, but is the only way that I feel even remotely safe.