[12428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Am I the bonehead or is it SprintLink?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Sep 16 13:54:19 1997
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:25:31 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: Brian Horvitz <horvitz@nsa.shore.net>
Cc: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>, Eric Wieling <eric@ccti.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970916131703.006ad424@nsa.shore.net>; from Brian Horvitz <horvitz@nsa.shore.net> on Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 01:17:03PM -0400
On Tue, Sep 16, 1997 at 01:17:03PM -0400, Brian Horvitz wrote:
> Could be that they physically handle full and partial T1 circuits on
> different facilities. I would imagine that Sprint brings in many circuits
> on a large trunk so, to avoid the interruption of moving one end of the
> circuit which could take it down for hours while the telco does their work,
> they just install a new circuit and the customer does a cutover.
It could, I suppose... but it's not too likely. I presume you mean
that they terminate Full- and Frac-T services on different routers at
their end? Maybe, but who cares? I've done this sort of thing on Frame
circuits, and it runs just the way he expected: you put two people on
the circuit on the phone, they both flip the same switched at the same
time, and your throughput changes. If they'll _upgrade_ you from Frac-
to Full- that way, why in hell won't they downgrade you?
The finances should be immaterial to the engineering, in this case.
Cheers,
-- jra
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