Re: cross connect reliability

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:

> 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.

Or until someone pulls out the wrong cable (which has happened to me).

Regards
Marshall


> ~Seth