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Re: cross connect reliability
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:52:47 -0700
Michael J McCafferty wrote:
All, Today I had yet another cross-connect fail at our colo provider. From memory, this is the 6th cross-connect to fail while in service, in 4yrs and recently there was a bad SFP on their end as well. This seemes like a high failure rate to me. When I asked about the high failure rate, they said that they run a lot of cables and there is a lot of jiggling and wiggling... lots of chances to get bent out of whack from activity near my patches and cables. Until a few years ago my time was spent mostly in single tenant data centers, and it may be true that we made fewer cabling changes and made less of a ruckus when cabling... but this still seems like a pretty high failure rate at the colo. I am curious; what do you expect the average reliability of your FastE or GigE copper cross-connects at a colo?
Never to fail? Seriously; if you're talking about a passive connection (optical or electrical) like a patch panel, I'd expect it to keep going forever unless someone damages it. ~Seth
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