On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:12:29 PDT, JC Dill said: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > What's the going rate these days that you have to pay to make sure your > > fiber > > gets spliced first rather than that other customer's 10GE?
> I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even > possible to pay extra to have your splice done first? I would think > that the logistics of splicing are such that the guy down in the hole > doesn't know whose traffic is on each strand in the bundle Exactly - which is a case for just having everybody's traffic mingled on a very busy 12-pair rather than several 96-pair with lots of dedicated links, *everybody* ends up back in service a lot faster... And remember - this industry has more trouble with backhoes and would-be copper thieves than terrorists. Anybody who is defending against terrorists by increasing their vulnerability to backhoes is, well...
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