[138620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Long Distance Dark Fiber
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ML)
Fri Mar 11 09:25:35 2011
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:25:32 -0500
From: ML <ml@kenweb.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3c53efc09fb96ffb77934bc5dbe1e475@feltonline.com>
Reply-To: ml@kenweb.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/10/2011 12:15 AM, nanog wrote:
> Good Evening all. I got an odd and somewhat crazy request from our
> development group for a long haul OC48 connection for testing (they
> specifically said from their office in Utah to the east coast and back)
> with minimal jitter. They need to be able to run their own framing Sonet
> and WDM - don't ask me why, it doesn't make sense to me. It would seem to
> me that the last requirement would require a dark fiber?
>
> So I've got several questions.
>
> One, is there any provider that would provide us such a beast for only one
> month? I realize that the fact this is long haul OC48 would make the cost
> astronomically high, and then throwing on the one month would make it even
> more expensive....
>
> Two, is there any good way to simulate such a long distance link? I know
> such equipment exists for smaller links, but I haven't yet found anything
> that'll do OC48 fiber. I'm sure the cost would be high for the equipment,
> however I'm betting it is *much* lower than the long distance link.
>
> Three, could we sanely encapsulate their framing into GRE (or some other
> such technology) and send it over an IP link and get SLAs to minimize the
> jitter?
>
> Offlist responses would be greatly appreciated.
Would it be too crazy to buy a spool of fiber and splice the end of one
pair to the next pair and so on? Won't be able to simulate 2200 miles
of fiber but it'll be a long span.
