Coincidence...

Tue May 13 16:18:08 UTC 1997

> 
> bmanning at ISI.EDU writes:
> 
> > And its not clear there is enough
> > capacity in the PSTN to carry all the bits about.  
> 
> The hard part is stringing fibre around, followed by
> figuring out clever ways of lighting it up.

	stringing it is easy... 
	the where to do it part is harder...
	the hard part is the clever ways to light it...

> Of NANOG relevance, there are ample war stories of
> weather-sunspot-and-bat-releated outages on high-bandwidth
> alternatives to terrestrial paths.  *I* wouldn't use a
> non-fibre (and ideally non-SONET) path where one were
> avialable if losing connectivity (or alot of capacity)
> when it stops working were an issue.

	pragmatist.. 

> 
> 	Sean.
> 


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--bill