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 about the high failure rate, > they said that they run a lot of cables and there is a lot of jiggling > and wiggling... lots of chances to get bent out of whack from activity > near my patches and cables. > Until a few years ago my time was spent mostly in single tenant data > centers, and it may be true that we made fewer cabling changes and made > less of a ruckus when cabling... but this still seems like a pretty high > failure rate at the colo. > I am curious; what do you expect the average reliability of your FastE > or GigE copper cross-connects at a colo? >
Never to fail? Seriously; if you're talking about a passive connection (optical or electrical) like a patch panel, I'd expect it to keep going forever unless someone damages it. ~Seth
