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Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY
From: Danny McPherson <danny () qwest net>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:20:59 -0600
APS is really a useless feature. Even when you get the contract to say there are diverse paths, they will later groom the circuits to put them in the same bundle.
APS, just like other things, can be employed less-than-intelligently. That doesn't make it broke. Believe it or not, more than a few times I've actually seen circuits switch to protect work when a fiber cut occurs on the primary path .. and, of course, we didn't read about those on NANOG :-) Given, had the protect path been on the same fiber that extra nanosecond likely wouldn't of provided much protection. Obviously, they need to be engineered and provisioned correctly. I do agree that grooming or lack of correct provisioning needs to be addressed, contractually, with clearly defined significant penalties associated with failure to meet the obligation. Once this occurs, I believe folks will begin to give more attention to such things that seem negligible in comparison to the commission they're about to receive. -danny
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- MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Scott Drassinower (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY William Allen Simpson (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 10)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Alex Bligh (Oct 10)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Jesper Skriver (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Jesper Skriver (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY William Allen Simpson (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 09)
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- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Sean Donelan (Oct 10)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Danny McPherson (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Peter Galbavy (Oct 12)
- Re: MCI Worldcom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Sean Donelan (Oct 13)