Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

Thu Apr 14 20:15:41 UTC 2005

SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring:  Two redundant connections to
the central office.  If someone gets a little crazy with a backhoe your line
is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure they will refund
part of your monthly bill if you have an outage).  That's why it costs over
twice as much.

I would imagine the other service is just a point-to-point connection,
subject to the same type of reliability you would get from any
point-to-point connection.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan
Lockwood
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:59 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

Hi All,

I'm trying to get some pricing on an OC-3 that we will be using for
voice.  We already have a master agreement with SBC for our services.  I
have the feeling that we are being "oversold" services and/or sold
services that are not required for what we need to accomplish.  Not
doing this everyday, I'm confused about the "Feature Name" of things
like:

SONET Circuit Service OC3-c (155Mbps) $2200 vs. Central Office Node
Circuit Service OC3/3c (155Mbps) $675

Anyone that is knowledgeable about SBC lingo, please feel free to ping
me.  If you have experience with OC3s even better! ;)

Thanks!
Dan