[108517] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: contracts and survivability of telecom sector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Oct 7 15:54:37 2008
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:53:58 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <13007.1223390707@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> One special case to consider - your provider gets taken over, and the new owner
> regrooms the combined fiber networks, such that formerly physically diverse
> paths no longer are...
These are lessons many learned 7 years ago...
No circuit is "set and forget", including so-called "protected"
services. The way long distance and international capacity is
swapped/bartered/remarketed reminds me of the complaints about the
current credit-default swap market (with all of the opacity!)
If you care about your reliability/survivability, you have to watch all
of the motions that an acquisition/transition will have on your
infrastructure [not just your future needs, but your current ones]. In
BK's, we've seen plenty of fiber providers hand over entrance facilities
that they had previously constructed to new entities and contract back
for the capacity they need. So it *looks* like the provider X build out
to your facility is completely diverse from provider Y, but they are no
longer diverse [with little -> no internal to the facility change].
Be careful out there...
Deepak Jain
AiNET
