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RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

  • From: Hannigan, Martin
  • Date: Thu Apr 14 16:40:20 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Luke Youngblood
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: 'Dan Lockwood'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
> 
> 
> 
> SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring:  Two redundant 
> connections to
> the central office.  If someone gets a little crazy with a 
> backhoe your line
> is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure they 
> will refund
> part of your monthly bill if you have an outage).  That's why 
> it costs over
> twice as much.

Ask for the DLR to assure this. SONET=redundancy is a misnomer. 


-M<