[99442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Fri Sep 21 17:07:39 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46F41DB6.1010504@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Deepak Jain wrote:
> Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of
> fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut?
>
> Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't
> SONET supposed to make this better?
Sure, if:
1. the protect path is configured and enabled
2. both the working and protect paths don't run through the same
conduit/duct/buffer
jms
