[25410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Mon Oct 11 18:21:52 1999
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From: Danny McPherson <danny@qwest.net>
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:20:59 -0600
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> APS is really a useless feature. Even when you get the contract to say there
> are diverse paths, they will later groom the circuits to put them in the
> same bundle.
APS, just like other things, can be employed less-than-intelligently. That
doesn't make it broke.
Believe it or not, more than a few times I've actually seen circuits switch to
protect work when a fiber cut occurs on the primary path .. and, of course, we
didn't read about those on NANOG :-)
Given, had the protect path been on the same fiber that extra nanosecond
likely wouldn't of provided much protection. Obviously, they need to be
engineered and provisioned correctly.
I do agree that grooming or lack of correct provisioning needs to be
addressed, contractually, with clearly defined significant penalties
associated with failure to meet the obligation. Once this occurs, I believe
folks will begin to give more attention to such things that seem negligible in
comparison to the commission they're about to receive.
-danny
