[9292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Coincidence...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Tue May 13 12:43:04 1997
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:18:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, avg@pluris.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <ytu3k7nyk4.fsf@cesium.clock.org> from "Sean M. Doran" at May 13, 97 12:09:47 pm
>
> bmanning@ISI.EDU writes:
>
> > And its not clear there is enough
> > capacity in the PSTN to carry all the bits about.
>
> The hard part is stringing fibre around, followed by
> figuring out clever ways of lighting it up.
stringing it is easy...
the where to do it part is harder...
the hard part is the clever ways to light it...
> Of NANOG relevance, there are ample war stories of
> weather-sunspot-and-bat-releated outages on high-bandwidth
> alternatives to terrestrial paths. *I* wouldn't use a
> non-fibre (and ideally non-SONET) path where one were
> avialable if losing connectivity (or alot of capacity)
> when it stops working were an issue.
pragmatist..
>
> Sean.
>
--
--bill
