Diversity - was: Fiber cut in SF area

Wed Apr 15 13:08:43 UTC 2009

That's funny, because our company is a (very small) LEC and a member of a
(small) regional network, and we've been asked by a larger consortium to
give them protected 10-Gig waves between two cities.  It's not been a
problem to find DWDM vendors that can do that.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Beck [mailto:Rod.Beck at hiberniaatlantic.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:39 AM
To: joel.mercado at verizon.net; Wallace Keith; nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Diversity - was: Fiber cut in SF area

That service is probably very expensive.  

There is no known way to provide cheap 10 wave protection. Not carrier
grade. Protected 10 GigE service (LAN PHY 10 GigE) will tolerate a very high
BER before switching. And the cost of switching STM64 is very high as well. 

Bottom line is that it will cost more than two diversely routed 10 gig
waves. 

There is no real market for protected 10 gig waves. Occasionally a bank will
request the service, but backoff as soon as they see the price tag. 

"Hopefully none of these customers had service and protect ckts that went
down... I would be pissed as a ceo if that happen to my company.  Hopefully
level3's new service offering is 100 at percent redundant as stated

The new service offerings include: - Protected Wavelengths: Level 3 now
provides automatic protection-switching to a dedicated diversely routed
wavelength in the event of a network failure. The protection switch, fully
automated and managed by Level 3, happens at switching speeds approaching
SONET restoration times. The single interface to the customer requires no
additional capital cost for customer optical ports, and the diverse
restoration path is fixed and fully known to the customer. These features
allow customers to achieve fast restoration with predictable performance in
their network without adding significant cost and routing complexity. -"

Roderick S. Beck
Director of European Sales
Hibernia Atlantic
13-15, rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris
http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com