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RE: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk () iname com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:01:40 -0500
There's a difference between folding a ring or pushing out a spoke to feed a few customers and providing connectivity to a town. I think building a SONET ring, or any kind of redundancy, has more to do with a rural telco's commitment to it's customers than the bottom line. Remember, the building of plant contributes to the cost study, so it may end up having zero cost in the end. Frank -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Wayne E. Bouchard Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 7:00 PM To: Justin M. Streiner Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:49:22PM -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better?Sure, if: 1. the protect path is configured and enabled 2. both the working and protect paths don't run through the same conduit/duct/buffer
I am continually amazed at how often this is the case. I realize that it's expensive to run these lines but when you put your working and protect in the same cable or different cables in the same trench (not even a trench a few feet apart, but the same trench and same innerduct), you have to EXPECT that you're gonna have angry customers. And yet when telco folks learn that this has occured, they often fein being as surprised as the customers. Truely amazing. --- Wayne Bouchard web () typo org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
Current thread:
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage, (continued)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Jeff Shultz (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Justin M. Streiner (Sep 21)
- Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) Deepak Jain (Sep 21)
- RE: Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) michael.dillon (Sep 23)
- Re: Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) Bill Stewart (Sep 28)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage David Lesher (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Wayne E. Bouchard (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Deepak Jain (Sep 21)
- Rings done right (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) John Curran (Sep 24)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 21)
- RE: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Frank Bulk (Sep 21)