[Outages-discussion] [outages] Fwd: OC 192 Outage in OR/WA

[Bill Wichers]

Not so hard to believe - it's oh so much more profitable to sell the
capacity you have on the "other side" of your ring than it is to just
reserve it for boring protection of existing services. I've also seen
supposedly "protected" links run on "ring" that consists of 4 strands
*in the same cable*. I also know of a local datacenter that has "path
diverse dual entry fiber" and the two conduit runs loop around outside
their building to go into the *same manhole*. The lesson is to double
check engineering and not always to trust your upstream carriers to do
things correctly.

 

The Southern Cross transpacific system had some customers do this a few
years back when a storm off the Oregon coast took out the North side of
their ring.

 

   -Bill

 

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From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk at iname.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:20 AM
To: 'Mauricio Lizano'; outages-discussion at outages.org
Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Fwd: OC 192 Outage in OR/WA

 

Linear link?  Hard to believe...

 

Frank

 

From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org]
On Behalf Of Mauricio Lizano
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:30 AM
To: outages at outages.org
Subject: [outages] Fwd: OC 192 Outage in OR/WA

 

 

duh! Sorry. I have customer's on different carriers affected (Covad,
Qwest), they are pointing the finger at the Sprint fiber being affected
by floods.
 

Thanks,

ML

 

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