[157481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Inter-domain OTN, does it happen in the real world?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Orton)
Tue Oct 23 19:07:42 2012
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:07:02 -0700
From: Will Orton <will@loopfree.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Reading about OTN networks, I see that "IrDI" is specified to handle the case
where one OTN network needs to connect to another natively with OTN signals.
Is this done in the real world? Does OTN network operator A ever go to OTN
network operator B and say, "I'd like to buy a OTU2 from city X to city Y on your
long haul network (at buildings J and K where we can connect simply with
short-distance SMF/1310 signals), and what TCM levels can you give me?"
I understand this in the case of lit 10GbE-WANPHY, LAN, and OC-192, but are OTU
"lit" signals bought and sold wholesale this way too? Is there generally a price
premium over the more normal client signals?
-Will Orton
