Outsourced NOC Solutions

Mon Jun 8 19:01:03 UTC 2020

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:51 PM Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
wrote:

> And... parenthetically, if a single link failure impacts customers, you're
> network is woefully badly designed.
>
Is that considered true by most leased dark fiber providers? If I'm leasing
a dark fiber circuit from a provider, I generally expect that what I'm
leasing is in fact one [or more] physical strands of fiber - not a somehow
redundant connection. Since he mentioned that this would be a dark fiber
network, I would tend to assume that's the product that he'd be offering.
Indeed, this has also been my experience with other providers, including
very large and relatively smaller ones - when leasing dark fiber, or
subscribing to a DWDM-based service, I'm going to be tied to a single,
specific path and physical disruptions to said path will impact my
connectivity. That's always been my expectation and experience at least -
am I wrong, or has this changed at some point?

- Matt

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