On 8/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eight or nine people I had > > talked to thought they had geographically distinct > > ring loops that turned out to be on that one cable > > when the second cut took it down hard. > > Perhaps now people will begin to take physical separacy > seriously and write grooming protocols and SLAs into > their contracts? > > Or was this type of service "good enough"?
What was the actual cost of this outage to operators in SLA credits? Perhaps it's just a function of economics: it's cheaper to plan for the 3 fiber cuts per 1000 route miles per year (or whatever the silly rate was I came across somewhere) and hand out credits than actually engineer physical redundancy. But seriously, has anyone quantified what this or similar cuts *actually cost*? aaron.glenn
