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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Jul 18 05:10:59 1997

To: Brian Koehl <bgk@usld.com>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:54:52 CDT."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:00:54 +0100

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:54:52 -0500 
 Brian Koehl <bgk@usld.com> wrote:

> floods are also big problems in rr-ror.  The only real protection you
> have is ringed SONET, however, even in that arrangment some carriers do
> not have the ability to reroute everything, just the priority stuff.  So
> they'll still have outages.  It's all a matter of capacity and what
> electronics they use.

I take it that would be Telcos who have a mix of SONET and other stuff?
We can reroute anything here at COLT, but we have a pure SDH based network.

Regards,
Neil.
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