[79743] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Apr 14 16:39:15 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:34:56 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Luke Youngblood" <lyoungblood@phonechargeinc.com>,
"Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Luke Youngblood
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: 'Dan Lockwood'; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
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> SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring: Two redundant=20
> connections to
> the central office. If someone gets a little crazy with a=20
> backhoe your line
> is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure they=20
> will refund
> part of your monthly bill if you have an outage). That's why=20
> it costs over
> twice as much.
Ask for the DLR to assure this. SONET=3Dredundancy is a misnomer.=20
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