North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY
> APS is really a useless feature. Even when you get the contract to say there > are diverse paths, they will later groom the circuits to put them in the > same bundle. APS, just like other things, can be employed less-than-intelligently. That doesn't make it broke. Believe it or not, more than a few times I've actually seen circuits switch to protect work when a fiber cut occurs on the primary path .. and, of course, we didn't read about those on NANOG :-) Given, had the protect path been on the same fiber that extra nanosecond likely wouldn't of provided much protection. Obviously, they need to be engineered and provisioned correctly. I do agree that grooming or lack of correct provisioning needs to be addressed, contractually, with clearly defined significant penalties associated with failure to meet the obligation. Once this occurs, I believe folks will begin to give more attention to such things that seem negligible in comparison to the commission they're about to receive. -danny
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