RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

["Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Luke Youngblood
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: 'Dan Lockwood'; nanog () merit edu
> Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
>
>
>
> SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring:  Two redundant 
> connections to
> the central office.  If someone gets a little crazy with a 
> backhoe your line
> is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure they 
> will refund
> part of your monthly bill if you have an outage).  That's why 
> it costs over
> twice as much.

Ask for the DLR to assure this. SONET=redundancy is a misnomer. 


-M<