Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Deepak Jain wrote:
Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of 
fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut?

Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't 
SONET supposed to make this better?

Sure, if:
1. the protect path is configured and enabled
2. both the working and protect paths don't run through the same 
conduit/duct/buffer

jms