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

[Larry Sheldon]

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.

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