[156106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Sep 6 13:01:57 2012
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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:00:37 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Will Orton <will@loopfree.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120906163812.GA9934@loopfree.net>
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On 06/09/2012 17:38, Will Orton wrote:
> The customer has a location in the relative middle of nowhere that they are
> trying to build a protected OC3 to.
Not sure if I see the problem here. Show them the bill for an OC3 service,
and then show them the bill for the equivalent ethernet service. This
usually works for me. If they want to pay for OC3 when there's no
compelling reason to, who are you to argue?
Nick