[127661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jul 8 11:26:44 2010
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:12:29 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:26:04 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:12:29 PDT, JC Dill said:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > What's the going rate these days that you have to pay to make sure your fiber
> > gets spliced first rather than that other customer's 10GE?
> I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even
> possible to pay extra to have your splice done first? I would think
> that the logistics of splicing are such that the guy down in the hole
> doesn't know whose traffic is on each strand in the bundle
Exactly - which is a case for just having everybody's traffic mingled on
a very busy 12-pair rather than several 96-pair with lots of dedicated links,
*everybody* ends up back in service a lot faster...
And remember - this industry has more trouble with backhoes and would-be
copper thieves than terrorists. Anybody who is defending against terrorists
by increasing their vulnerability to backhoes is, well...
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