Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
Luke S Crawford wrote: Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net writes: You've never seen a single port go bad on a switch? I can't even count the number of times I've seen that happen. Not that I'm not suggesting the OP wasn't the victim of a human error like unplugging the wrong port and

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
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

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread William Pitcock
We have never had a xconnect fail, ever. And we have several. This is over a 6 year period. William --Original Message-- From: Michael J McCafferty To: nanog Subject: cross connect reliability Sent: Sep 17, 2009 4:45 PM All, Today I had yet another cross-connect fail at our

RE: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread David Hubbard
From: Michael J McCafferty [mailto:m...@m5computersecurity.com] 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

RE: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Michael: -Original Message- From: Michael J McCafferty [mailto:m...@m5computersecurity.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:46 PM To: nanog Subject: cross connect reliability All, Today I had yet another cross-connect fail at our colo provider. From memory,

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Alex Balashov
Seth Mattinen wrote: 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

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: 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

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Justin Wilson - MTIN
From: Michael J McCafferty m...@m5computersecurity.com Organization: M5Hosting Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:45:36 -0700 To: nanog nanog@nanog.org Subject: cross connect reliability All, Today I had yet another cross-connect fail at our colo provider. From memory, this is the 6th cross-connect to

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
Alex Balashov wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: 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

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Charles Wyble
Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:52 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: 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

RE: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Deepak Jain
[lots of stuff deleted]. We've seen cross-connects fail at sites like E and others. Generally speaking, it is a human-error issue and not a component failure one. Either people are being sloppy and aren't reading labels, or the labels aren't there. In a cabinet situation, every cabinet does

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Mike Lieman
We have a winner! On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tvwrote: Or until someone pulls out the wrong cable (which has happened to me). Regards Marshall ~Seth

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Pete Carah
On 09/17/2009 06:37 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: [lots of stuff deleted]. A famous one that can happen with some techs is that they make jumpers from solid wire with generic rj45 plugs (yes, I've seen this recently from several folks who should know better). These will last somewhere around a

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Jon Lewis
Not really. That's all too easy to diagnose and fix. Poorly terminated and or mistreated cabling is far more likely. I wrote a long post about all the crap termination and poor treatment I've seen...but canceled the message. On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Mike Lieman wrote: We have a winner! On

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Mike Lieman
Because no-one is stealing pairs anymore? On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: Not really. That's all too easy to diagnose and fix. Poorly terminated and or mistreated cabling is far more likely. I wrote a long post about all the crap termination and poor

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20090917234547.gt51...@gerbil.cluepon.net, Richard A Steenbergen w rites: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:35:37PM -0700, Charles Wyble wrote: Random failures of a single ports connectivity bizzare and annoying. Whole switches? Seen it. Whole panels? Seen it. Whole blades?