[156173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Sep 10 16:53:50 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=ofrFTQKt7A1zZZSNnKYdNeh0kHC1OWH65yBnfmfFQedA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:53:00 -0400
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Matthew,
On Sep 10, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> =
wrote:
> This *was* a troll, right=85?
I suspect it wasn't. There's some people who equate various types of =
services with others.
I've been following this thread with some head-scratching going on. =
Some folks think "ethernet" can only be a metro solution with =
STP/RSTP/MSTP/VPLS in the "cloud" of another network.
Others realize that saying ethernet as the encoding on the PHY is =
entirely different. (lan-phy, wan-phy, otu2, otu2e, etc).
When it comes to talking "SONET" vs "Ethernet" it is good to be very =
explicit. There are a variety of ways to provide a redundant and =
protected service with ethernet vs sonet/sdh framing.
Some of the carrier provided "ethernet" products result in weird =
pricing, or plain fear. I recall one ILEC that got an entire team on =
the phone with me for an ask about a 100m service purchase, because it =
was "huge" to them. Their price reflected it as well :) It was easier =
to stick with the city fiber network for backhaul as the pricing was =
sane.
- Jared
