[145658] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [OT] Overture's Ethernet over bonded Copper products
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Berkman)
Fri Oct 14 16:46:47 2011
From: "Scott Berkman" <scott@sberkman.net>
To: "'Graham Wooden'" <graham@g-rock.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABCD304.40F7C%graham@g-rock.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:45:45 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've been working with them (it's really the Hatteras Networks products)
since before the acquisition. I don't have much to compare to in terms =
of
experience with the competing products, but I can tell you we've been =
very
happy with the equipment, and I've heard lots of horror stories from =
Zhone
customers. Hatteras' support was also phenomenal. I haven't seen any
change yet since the acquisition except we have a different sales guy.
The biggest challenge is that when dealing with 3rd party (iLEC) copper
pairs, you really don't know what you are going to get until you turn up =
the
circuit. There can also be a lot of fingerpointing when things break
because the circuits you buy from the iLEC are generally cheap and don't
have very high requirements for when the techs test and accept the =
circuit.
Hope that helps,
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Wooden [mailto:graham@g-rock.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:40 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: [OT] Overture's Ethernet over bonded Copper products
HI operators,
Been looking at Overture=B9s =8CEthernet over Copper=B9 product line; =
any you
folks have any real world experience with them?
Would love to hear off-line the good, bad, ugly stories =AD if you are =
willing
to share.
Much appreciated.
-graham
