[11032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DC fiber cut: field report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Fri Jul 18 16:13:39 1997
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:30:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707181859.LAA21273@dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US> from "Owen DeLong" at Jul 18, 97 11:59:11 am
> The thing that doesn't make sense to me in all of this is that SONET
> is supposed to be built as RINGS. With a Service side and a Protect side
> to each switch.
The story that I have heard is that some providers have 1 (one)
protect circuit to cover many primary circuits... You loose too
many primary and limit number of protect circuits can't get them
all.
--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
