[190251] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP and Optical domains?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Mon Jun 20 07:13:58 2016
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To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:13:50 +0200
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 20/Jun/16 12:45, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> So if you have a fiber break, you're not going to have enough
> overcapacity in your network to remain uncongested until this fiber
> break is fixed?
That was my point - we will have enough capacity on diverse routes to
handle the outage.
We deploy additional capacity primarily for growth. The resiliency
aspect comes as an added advantage.
The diverse paths are already in place. So it's just about adding more
bandwidth between the paths in an equal manner.
Mark.
