[15687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Buying b/w directly from undersea cable owners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chrisy Luke)
Mon Mar 16 12:53:14 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:19:34 +0000
From: Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>
To: Richard Almeida <rpa@insnet.net>
Cc: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199803151255.NAA06272@aurora.uk.insnet.net>; from Richard Almeida on Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 12:55:02PM +0000
Richard Almeida wrote (on Mar 15):
> instance (I think, Cantat3 backs up to Gemini and vice-versa) - I dont
As I understood it, Gemini has it's own redundant loop. It's two
cables across the pond to different cities at each end with land-cables
between the cities in the same country, all SDH'ed. If not, that was
certainly an option that I saw.
> And, also, the cable wont get repaired if its old and breaking (ie the
> cable has a life, assume 10-15 years)
The money you hand over is usually only for a lease of 25 years anyway.
Chris.
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