[25402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Sun Oct 10 09:15:34 1999
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Oct 1999 11:42:28 PDT."
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vixie@mibh.net said:
> why pay the complexity and cost overhead of SONET if you're not
> building rings?
Because on a long path, collapsed SONET (i.e. running on a single
path) is about half the cost than diverse SONET. Sometimes less
than half as the second leg is less direct. You get what you pay
for.
--
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)
