[25408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon Oct 11 05:17:18 1999
Message-Id: <199910110906.CAA08377@bb.rc.vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:56:48 +0200."
<19991011105648.A29809@skriver.dk>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 02:06:52 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> It's all down to having enough spare capacity, and when you have half of
> your capacity stuck in SONET/SDH protection, you cannot use that for
> short peaks of traffic, and you dont have the option of saying, in case
> of a outage, we will suffer 20% performance drop, which on expensive
> circuits (like trans atlantic ones) could be what one wanted.
it's all down to the definition of "acceptable loss", then.
