DS3 Ordering Experiences

Fri Feb 23 15:06:27 UTC 2001

At 12:39 AM 2/23/2001 -0500, Steve Sobol wrote:
>Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
> > It took me awhile, but the part about being the squeaky wheel is very 
> true and
> > accurate. Sucks, but that's the way it is.
>
>So who's the best at meeting their deadlines, amongst the big guys?
>
>I suspect that, to a certain extent, your assessment will be true of any
>backbone.

Yes. I don't think you can depend on a tier 1 carriers FOC, unless of course
you have a large deal like an OC12 worth of bandwidth and you build in an exit
if they don't make the date, or liquidated damages.

My 6 week OC12 was with I guess what you might call a next generation carrier,
although I'm really not sure if that's the proper phrase. I would consider 
Level 3 a
next gen, but in this case it's GNAPS, and I'm not really sure what they are.

Whatever they are, they're good.

-M

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