[113549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Diversity - was: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Harris)
Wed Apr 15 11:08:57 2009
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:00:50 +0100
From: Neil Harris <neil@tonal.clara.co.uk>
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
In-Reply-To: <1E8B940C5E21014AB8BE70B975D40EDB01627F06@bert.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Rod Beck wrote:
> And if the 10 gig wave is from 1 Wilshire to 60 Hudson with hundreds of regen huts and 30 POPs in between?
>
> How that affect the capex cost?
>
>
Sure, the capex cost of offering full diversity is substantial; my point
was just that the cost of switching STM64 signals at the endpiints need
not be a significant issue, since you only have to switch the optical
path, which is cheap to do and highly reliable, and the kit to do that
will only make up a tiny fraction of the rest of the capital and
operations cost.
-- Neil
