United Cable Company is primarily a broker. To Rod's questions :
Sure, you can light a pair and monitor it many different ways. However, as James has said already, most people who want dark fiber are going to want one pair of glass from A to Z with nothing in the middle at all that they don't know about. For me, I would want to know exactly what you had in place ( full specifications , not hand waved 'monitoring device' ) , what wavelengths it used, how it functioned (fully passive, etc), along with some extensive tests to make sure I could do what I expected to without any interference or surprises, before I would come near a contract with you. >From my point of view, any device on the glass I am leasing is essentially now part of my network, so I need to know everything about it. Others may have different standards of course, but that's perfectly fine. I would say personally though that if during due diligence, your NOC was nothing more than an answering service to someone else, which it kinda sounds like you want, I would personally not do business with that. Again others may have different standards, and that's ok. On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:54 PM Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > *Rod Beck* rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com > <nanog%40nanog.org?Subject=Re%3A%20Outsourced%20NOC%20Solutions&In-Reply-To=%3CDM5PR1301MB197970E61423A8B18D0B5558E4850%40DM5PR1301MB1979.namprd13.prod.outlook.com%3E> > wrote > > I would calm down, Miles. 😃 Dark fiber networks are built and usually > maintained by the same construction company that installed them. And a dark > fiber network does not even need a single full time optical engineer. If the > cable is damaged, then the guys who installed it will repair it. All the > expertise is there. > > And no, I am not an executive at a undersea cable system. i was one of > Hibernia Atlantic's top salesmen during the early years from 2004-2011 after > which I retired. > > > Funny thing then, given that you signed your original query as: > > Roderick Beck > VP of Business Development > United Cable > Companywww.unitedcablecompany.com<http://www.unitedcablecompany.com> > > And following the link to United Cable Company's web site reveals: > > "Your source for the world's most distinctive submarine cable assets." > And the about page says "Its mission, as a leading telecom consulting > company, is to represent the world’s most distinctive submarine and > terrestrial cable assets." > > Your original query asked: > > Am I wrong in believing that there should be a way of lighting a single pair > in the cable and then monitoring it for signal disruption? It is not a > perfect solution, but arguably better than learning that the cable has been > damaged from an irate customer. > > In a followup message you say: > > Just to clarify, this is a dark fiber network already built and will be > repaired by the construction company that built it. I just a system to inform > them as soon as the fibers are damaged. > > So... color me confused about who you are, who you represent, what you're > trying to accomplish, what you're asking, and, perhaps, why you don't > already know the answer to your question, or have someone internal to your > organization who already knows. > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. > Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. > In our lab, theory and practice are combined: > nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown > >
