[25449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to waste fiber (was:OT:MarketSpeak)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Wed Oct 13 18:08:11 1999
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:26:45 -0400
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@bbnplanet.com>
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At 12:07 PM 10/13/1999 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>Worse, in my miserable experience, the APS would flip back and forth.
>It's not supposed to, but it has. I firmly recommend: do not pay for
>APS. Put the money toward diverse paths. As usual, Paul Vixie has got
>it right!
APS is not intended to be a standalone protection factor. Implemented on
routers, it will only protect you up to the first LTE. In most cases, this
will be an in-house cross connect.
Don't confuse APS with 1+1 protection.
-Steve
