[156109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Sep 6 14:03:25 2012
In-Reply-To: <5048D6B5.7020202@foobar.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:02:37 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> 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?
(remember, of course, to pad that bill by 8% so you profit more on the
more expensive link... go telecom think!)
