On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:15:41 EDT, Luke Youngblood said: > > 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.
And remember to ask questions - make sure they've actually got the two connections routed differently. Remember that if the backhoe hits the conduit, *all* the fiber pairs go - and if both runs were in the same conduit, you're still dead.... (Anybody here *NOT* seen cases where the 2 fibers leave the building on opposite sides, go down different streets - and rejoin 2 miles down the way because there's only one convenient bridge/tunnel/etc over the river, or similar?)
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