[25450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to waste fiber (was:OT:MarketSpeak)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Wed Oct 13 18:14:58 1999
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:33:13 -0400
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From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@bbnplanet.com>
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At 01:34 PM 10/13/1999 -0600, Danny McPherson wrote:
>Of course, more interesting than presumably transparent trunk failures in
>relation to SONET protection, are trib failures with inter-router APS on the
>trib side. This requires a bit more attention to detail (speaking from
>experience).
>
>
>-danny
not exactly related...
The approach that I am taking for critical links (Trans-Atlantic) is to not
trust that the vendors are getting it right the first time. We are actually
testing protection switching end-to-end, at every LTE. Yes, this is long
and painful, but is the only way that I feel even remotely safe.
