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

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:03:44PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Wichers" <billw at waveform.net>
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, but after you're done paying the class-action settlement with your 
> customers who were *pretty sure* they'd contracted with you for protected 
> service, and their attorneys' fees, the profit's a little lower, no?

Who to date has ever attempted that?  Have any references or historical
cases I can read?

I can mirror Bill's sentiments and experience here, especially when
working with the "big boys" (AT&T, Verizon, Abovenet, L3, etc.).  It's
impossible to say whether the decisions made during provisioning and
deployment were done to save money, or out of sheer laziness.  I tend to
think it's the latter.

I do recognise that in some cases there are physical limitations that
trump all of the above (ex. only one conduit available for long-haul as
a result of a huge mountain being in the way).

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