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Re: Coincidence...

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Tue May 13 12:39:24 1997
  • Posted-date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:18:08 -0700 (PDT)

> 
> [email protected] writes:
> 
> > And its not clear there is enough
> > capacity in the PSTN to carry all the bits about.  
> 
> The hard part is stringing fibre around, followed by
> figuring out clever ways of lighting it up.

	stringing it is easy... 
	the where to do it part is harder...
	the hard part is the clever ways to light it...

> Of NANOG relevance, there are ample war stories of
> weather-sunspot-and-bat-releated outages on high-bandwidth
> alternatives to terrestrial paths.  *I* wouldn't use a
> non-fibre (and ideally non-SONET) path where one were
> avialable if losing connectivity (or alot of capacity)
> when it stops working were an issue.

	pragmatist.. 

> 
> 	Sean.
> 


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--bill
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