[Outages-discussion] [outages] Verizon Business OC-48 in Philly, S. New Jersey down

[Jon Radel]

On 9/4/10 11:38 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 9/4/2010 21:52, Bill Wichers wrote:
>> I've seen plenty of SONET "rings" where both sides are in the same
>> cable. Not too much protection when doing things that way...
>>
>> I think the southern cross cable system had some customers that
>> discovered several years back that running production traffic on both
>> sides of your ring can seem like a great way to double capacity until
>> a major storm goes through and blows away one of the cables and you
>> don't have any capacity left for protection on the remaining side of
>> the ring.
> A problem probably as old as chariots.
>
> Management does not understand the notion of "spares".  They understand
> paying for stuff in revenue service, and does not understand paying for
> stuff not in revenue service.
>
I recently sat in a meeting where a manager suggested, in all 
seriousness, since we hadn't used some redundant circuits and servers 
recently, maybe we should get rid of them to save money.  (Not only are 
they all hot standbys, he didn't bother checking with the operations 
guys as to when they'd last saved our butts, he seems to have assumed 
that since there hadn't been any failures that he'd been notified of 
(and he generally only hears about outages that several customers would 
notice), the hot standbys had done nothing but suck down electricity and 
dollars.)  I refrained, but just barely, from pointing out that since he 
hadn't had any auto accidents recently, he could improve his gas mileage 
by removing the weight of his seat belts and air bags.

Sigh.

BTW, the Philly VZB OC-48 came back late last night.

-- 
Jon Radel



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