[25384] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Oct 7 07:04:21 1999
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
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To: amb@gxn.net (Alex Bligh)
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:25:03 +0100 (BST)
Cc: deepak@ai.net, majdi@puck.nether.net, lammers@zeus.netset.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E11Yyyc-0001LH-00@sapphire.noc.gxn.net> from "Alex Bligh" at Oct 6, 99 10:51:58 pm
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> Without wishing to blow my own country's trumpet, one of the few things
> right about the UK (and to a great extent Europe's) telecommunications
> carrier market is sensible telcos dig proper ducts, put sensible
> fiber in them, bury them at sensible depths, and in general only
> provision SDH (read SONET in the US). And *seem* to keep maps.
We have a very comprehensive map of the ducting that is laid.
And another layer that covers fibre which extends into buildings, which
is a very impressive system. You can look at a building like Telehouse and
find the fibre paths very quickly. It can plot routes based upon
specified optical power budgets and redundancy requirements, and
generate a works list for joins etc if a new ring is being built.
Regards,
Neil.
--
Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking.
neil@DOMINO.ORG
