[109790] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARCOS Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Frankenberger)
Sat Dec 6 12:05:36 2008
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:05:24 -0600
From: Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog@panix.com>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
In-Reply-To: <FF5E2BD4C989EB41B60A6DC6CA8D29520DB997BB69@EXCHMBX.hq.nac.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:31:11AM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>
> I wonder if having a spare card there would have been cheaper than
> this outage and resulting flights and labour?
It unquestionably would have cheaper to have a spare for that card at
that location. What might not have been cheaper, though, is having a
spare for *every* type of card that could fail, *everywhere* those
cards are deployed.
> > Yup, there is a defective card in the Bahamas. They should be flying in
> > this
-- Brett
