MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY

Alex Bligh amb at gxn.net
Sun Oct 10 12:13:05 UTC 1999



vixie at mibh.net said:
> why pay the complexity and cost overhead of SONET if you're not
> building rings?

Because on a long path, collapsed SONET (i.e. running on a single
path) is about half the cost than diverse SONET. Sometimes less
than half as the second leg is less direct. You get what you pay
for.


-- 
Alex Bligh
GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)






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