DC fiber cut: field report

Andrew Partan asp at partan.com
Fri Jul 18 19:30:52 UTC 1997


> The thing that doesn't make sense to me in all of this is that SONET
> is supposed to be built as RINGS.  With a Service side and a Protect side
> to each switch.

The story that I have heard is that some providers have 1 (one)
protect circuit to cover many primary circuits...  You loose too
many primary and limit number of protect circuits can't get them
all.
	--asp at partan.com (Andrew Partan)



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