[117540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cross connect reliability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Sep 17 18:04:15 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: <4AB2AFAF.50900@rollernet.us>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:59:34 -0400
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Michael J McCafferty wrote:
>> All,
>> Today I had yet another cross-connect fail at our colo provider.
>> From
>> memory, this is the 6th cross-connect to fail while in service, in
>> 4yrs
>> and recently there was a bad SFP on their end as well. This seemes
>> like
>> a high failure rate to me. When I asked about the high failure rate,
>> they said that they run a lot of cables and there is a lot of
>> jiggling
>> and wiggling... lots of chances to get bent out of whack from
>> activity
>> near my patches and cables.
>> Until a few years ago my time was spent mostly in single tenant data
>> centers, and it may be true that we made fewer cabling changes and
>> made
>> less of a ruckus when cabling... but this still seems like a pretty
>> high
>> failure rate at the colo.
>> I am curious; what do you expect the average reliability of your
>> FastE
>> or GigE copper cross-connects at a colo?
>>
>
> Never to fail? Seriously; if you're talking about a passive connection
> (optical or electrical) like a patch panel, I'd expect it to keep
> going
> forever unless someone damages it.
>
Or until someone pulls out the wrong cable (which has happened to me).
Regards
Marshall
> ~Seth
>
>
