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Re: Fiber cut in SJ

  • From: Aaron Glenn
  • Date: Mon Aug 08 06:50:07 2005
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On 8/8/05, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >  Eight or nine people I had
> > talked to thought they had geographically distinct
> > ring loops that turned out to be on that one cable
> > when the second cut took it down hard.
> 
> Perhaps now people will begin to take physical separacy
> seriously and write grooming protocols and SLAs into
> their contracts?
> 
> Or was this type of service "good enough"?

What was the actual cost of this outage to operators in SLA credits?
Perhaps it's just a function of economics: it's cheaper to plan for
the 3 fiber cuts per 1000 route miles per year (or whatever the silly
rate was I came across somewhere) and hand out credits than actually
engineer physical redundancy.

But seriously, has anyone quantified what this or similar cuts *actually cost*?

aaron.glenn