[99440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Sep 21 16:54:04 2007
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:38:30 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:33:46 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:38:30 EDT, Deepak Jain said:
> Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however --
> isn't SONET supposed to make this better?
I'm not in Texas, but I am rural - there's plenty of places around here
where it's just not economically feasible to run 2 diverse fiber paths
to a town. Heck, a lot of these places didn't get their *first* fiber
until fairly recently.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=grundy,+virgina&ie=UTF8&ll=37.279107,-82.099457&spn=0.414686,0.782776&t=h&z=11&om=1
Not a place you'll find a redundant SONET ring. ;)
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