Having work in high traffic colo spaces around the world for the last
ten years or so, in my experience this type of issue is very rare. If
you are having this type of "quality" issue, I would sit down with
your sales rep and ask to be stepped through their processes, there is
obviously something that has gone VERY VERY WRONG.
Shane
On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:45 PM, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
All,
Today I had yet another cross-connect fail at our colo provider. From
memory, this is the 6th cross-connect to fail while in service, in
4yrs
and recently there was a bad SFP on their end as well. This seemes
like
a high failure rate to me. When I asked about the high failure rate,
they said that they run a lot of cables and there is a lot of jiggling
and wiggling... lots of chances to get bent out of whack from activity
near my patches and cables.
Until a few years ago my time was spent mostly in single tenant data
centers, and it may be true that we made fewer cabling changes and
made
less of a ruckus when cabling... but this still seems like a pretty
high
failure rate at the colo.
I am curious; what do you expect the average reliability of your
FastE
or GigE copper cross-connects at a colo?
Thanks,
Mike
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