[79874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Sun Apr 17 14:50:09 2005
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050417143921.D20448@cgi.jachomes.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
So here's the 64GB/s question:
If carriers are being paid to ensure physical separation between
circuits for the life of the circuit, why is it that they haven't
implemented change management systems (and I don't solely mean the
software) to ensure they they *can* (not even that they will) manage to
ensure such separation?
Simple math. The cost of the occasional SLA credit and/or circuit
regrooming when the customer discovers a non-diverse path where one
was specified is obviously much less than the cost of tracking,
maintaining ( and surely providing ) path diversity.
Surely large providers have spent a lot more time and money
developing processes and software that allow them to groom circuits
into the least number of physical paths possible. Or at least I
would, if I were paying for the facilities.
matto
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