[outages] Major Fiber Cut in Miami

[Frank Bulk]

That defies every common understanding of "SONET ring".  Better to call it
"linear STS connection" then. =)

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: mpetach at gmail.com [mailto:mpetach at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthew
Petach
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:48 PM
To: frnkblk at iname.com
Cc: Jason LeBlanc; outages at outages.org
Subject: Re: [outages] Major Fiber Cut in Miami

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> If it really was SONET *ring*, how could a fiber cut cause an outage?
>
> Frank

Just because it's a ring doesn't mean it was configured for protection...

Matt