[30385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sonet protection usage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@gtsip.net)
Tue Aug 1 13:25:11 2000
Date: 1 Aug 2000 18:24:37 +0100
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On Thu, 27 July 2000, Jonathon Plonka wrote:
> I might point out that Global Crossing does lay out their paths as rings
> including under sea cables.
>
> http://www.globalcrossing.com/net_ac1.htm for us to europe
> http://www.globalcrossing.com/net_pc1.htm for US to japan.
Go to http://www.flagatlantic.com/ to read about a major transatlantic cable that is organized in physical rings. To see what I mean you need to go to the "cable route" page and check out the detailled maps for London-Paris and New York where you will see that there are two end-point rings connected by a long transatlantic ring.
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