Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
Hannigan, Martin
hannigan at verisign.com
Thu Apr 14 20:34:56 UTC 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Luke Youngblood
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: 'Dan Lockwood'; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
>
>
>
> 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.
Ask for the DLR to assure this. SONET=redundancy is a misnomer.
-M<
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