Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit

2004-08-16 Thread Vincent J. Bono
> I just want my bits to flow quickly and reliably. I don't really care > if you do it on Juniper, Force10, cisco, or tin-cans-and-string. > > Why do you care? Because of the value proposition inherent in certain manufacturers' products whether they work properly or not. After all, the Street w

Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-29 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Alex, I think one avenue of approach will be to see if ARIN would grant you another contiguous block to replace not just what the customer got but the entire block they have polluted. If they will not, as I suspect, then you can show that the TRO while upholding the status quo is causing you har

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-18 Thread Vincent J. Bono
> Also, while drastic, filing suit > doesn't preclude adults getting together and working out the the matter > before anything makes it to court. Having been a part of a few large lawsuits here, I can say that many judges will force at least a conversation between signatories of both parties (

Lit Building Query

2004-06-03 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Anyone out there know which, if any, providers other than Worldcom have 8913 Complex Drive, San Diego California, 92123 lit? Please reply offlist. Thanks! -Vin

Re: WAN transfer rates

2004-05-11 Thread Vincent J. Bono
A nifty graph that I have found to be fairly accurate is at a little way down the page. http://www.atlantateleport.com/Services/TCP_IP_Via_Satellite/tcp_ip_via_satellite.htm And an intensive whitepaper at: http://public.lanl.gov/radiant/pubs/drs/hpdc2002.pdf Hope this helps. -v > - Or

Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

2003-11-03 Thread Vincent J. Bono
> I'm fairly certain that the telco huts or CO's have to accomodate multiple > groups having access, so I'd bet that a padlock probably is a tough sell > :( Its very interesting that the 'critical infrastructure' has seemingly > loose security on such vital parts. Actually padlocks are quite comm

Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

2003-11-03 Thread Vincent J. Bono
> The quesiton isn't so much how someone cut a fiber strand, but why the > failure of a single fiber strand had such an impact on the telephone > service in the region. I'd be willing to bet it wasn't a single "strand". More likely the press or whoever got it wrong and it was an entire cable or

Re: Availability of Natural Gas during Blackout

2003-08-17 Thread Vincent J. Bono
> > 2. In times of weather emergencies, snow and excessive cold, the gas > > companies routinely shut down gas flow to non-residential areas > > This is a contract issue; Commercial customers often get better rates > for being 'cutable'... but you need to assure the generator is not one. This is

Re: Availability of Natural Gas during Blackout

2003-08-17 Thread Vincent J. Bono
There are a couple of problems with Natural Gas generators: 1. It takes an aweful lot of pressure to get a NG engine up past enough HP to generate more than say 150KW. At least thats what we have seen with current models. It seems to be an issue of pressure, and whether being fed from a pipelin

Re: Gigabit Media Converter

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent J. Bono
This is correct. - Original Message - From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:53 AM Subject: Re: Gigabit Media Converter > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > > Ok well I'm not an optics expert but I wasnt

Re: Gigabit Media Converter

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Thanks for all the links and help! The issue is cost and space, and all the products that will work seem to cost upwards of $3,000 and do a lot more than we need or take up a few rack units of space. I am probably going to build a small circuit to handle connecting two GBICs back to back. The pi

Re: Gigabit Media Converter

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent J. Bono
verter > I believe this is what you are looking > > http://www.transition.com/products/mcon_platform/standalone/gigabit/fsmmm04. htm > > >>> "Vincent J. Bono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/11/2003 12:02:04 PM >>> > > Anyone out ther ever see or hear tel

Gigabit Media Converter

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Anyone out ther ever see or hear tell of a device that will let you run two GBICs back to back wthout an associated switch and all the trimmings? Application is to convert a CWDM GBIC signal to a Multimode one. TIA, Vin

Qwest in Albany, GA

2003-07-24 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Is there anyone collocated with Qwest in Albany, GA? If so reply to me off-list? Thanks! -Vin

New Cisco Vulnerability

2003-07-16 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Hello All,   There seem to be rumors going around that there is a new major Cisco vulnerability but only the major backbones are being given fixes right now.   Something about packets malformed in a certain manner cause the router to wedge.   Can anyne shed any light on or off list?   -vb  

Re: Eliminating physical colocation (was Re: Shared facilities)

2002-08-21 Thread Vincent J. Bono
dundancy you have. > > > > Fire code is not compatible with Union rules. > > > > DJ > > > > (Disclaimer, I have a completely unbalanced view of Union workers, all bad. > > I know > > there are good Union workers, but I have never met any professionally -- I

Re: Eliminating physical colocation (was Re: Shared facilities)

2002-08-21 Thread Vincent J. Bono
We have always had more of an issue with "Union Members" rather than "Verizon Employees" per se. If you don't use Union Labor to install in Boston or New York you had best have a secured cabinet or else 25 pair bundles seem to spontaneously develop slices. - Original Message - From: "N.

Re: MAE ATM

2002-07-31 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Anyone remember the Magnum's or MetroLans? :-) Jon Hardy where aee youuu! - Original Message - From: "David Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:24 PM Subject: Re: MAE ATM

Anyone using Interspeed DSL gear?

2002-07-22 Thread Vincent J. Bono
If anyone is using any Interspeed DSL equipment, please email me offline? Thanks, Vin

Re: fractional gigabit ethernet links?

2002-07-15 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Since this is being done with the 15454s this is not true rate limiting, more its a matter of STS channels being made available for use on the Vlan assigned to the two GigE ports. We have experienced this problem when sending traffic in excess of 250mbps through either: a) 4 or more 15454 hops

Re: Kudos to Qwest

2002-07-09 Thread Vincent J. Bono
That never stopped Worldcom from billing. Installation? We don't need no stinking Installation! :-) - Original Message - From: "Kyle C. Bacon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vincent J. Bono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Kudos to Qwest

2002-07-09 Thread Vincent J. Bono
We always hear the worst but I just thought I would plug Qwest in that they just installed an OC-12 point to point cross country for me in 27 hours from time of order. This included cross connects at Level3.

Re: wcom overbilling

2002-07-05 Thread Vincent J. Bono
I have not been at one company, not one, service provider or otherwise that has not had major WCOM billing issues. No matter how large or small we were. - Original Message - From: "Dan Hollis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Beggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Frid

Re: Bet on with my boss

2002-06-21 Thread Vincent J. Bono
Sycamore equipment does not have orderwire. :( And we don't breakout with the muxes that do at every location. - Original Message - From: "blitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vincent J. Bono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri

Re: Bet on with my boss

2002-06-21 Thread Vincent J. Bono
We recently had a piece of equipment fail outside of Bronson, FL. This was in a regeneration hut, 50 miles from almost anywhere useful. There is no cellular service and no POTs in the HUT. The closest employee was a woman who although bright was not very familiar with the equipment installed.