[12000] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multiple fiber carriers (was Re: Netrail woes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Aug 26 17:47:28 1997
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: "Paul D. Robertson" <root@gannett.com>
cc: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@priori.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.970826151809.24062E-100000@linus.gannett.com>
Now here is a question, what is WorldComm's Standard Operating Procedure
(SOP) for building facilities of OC-48 or larger. Since obviously they
plan to distribute from plants like that, do they dual paths or something
more elaborate [i.e. multiple collapsed rings, etc].
-Deepak.
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
> > I'd assume that everybody is currently either already doing
> > this or planning to do it RSN. How can one tell, however,
> > whether their carrier is using their own fiber or leasing
> > Worldcom's? Or even if Worldcom has been leasing /theirs/,
> > thus putting you right back on the same physical line?
>
> It's one of the questions we ask prior to purchasing service. Just has
> MFS install a new ring and put in physically seperate paths to one of our
> facilities for just that reason. We made sure the paths were physically
> seperate when they did the install. We waited for them to bring fiber up
> the corridor prior to ordering service from them. Personally, I'd make
> sure it was in the contract that service was being provided on physically
> seperate media than the original carrier for a subsequent carrier, with
> redundant paths, etc. If it's a new business, I'd make carrier facilties
> part of the site survey. SONNET from multiple wirelines is good until
> you forget something like multiple paths to the facility, then Joe
> Backhoe Operator (JBO) will pick that single point of failure every darned
> time.
>
> > > I know this is a pretty common topic of discussion among
> > the smaller telcos, but AFAIK there's no easy solution.
>
> Contracts and lawgeeks.
>
> Paul
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> Paul D. Robertson
> gatekeeper@gannett.com
>
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