<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes it did, because they were running <i>all</i> of those over their Infinera DWDM platforms which crashed. If the underlying optical line terminals are FUBAR, all bets are off.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:27 PM Luke Guillory <<a href="mailto:lguillory@reservetele.com">lguillory@reservetele.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Didn’t the Dec 2018 CL outage cause waves and even TDM circuits to go down?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NANOG <nanog-bounces+lguillory=<a href="mailto:reservetele.com@nanog.org" target="_blank">reservetele.com@nanog.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Erculiani<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Darin Steffl <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com" target="_blank">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> nanog list <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For providers who use the same infrastructure for their IP backbone and Ethernet services (as so many do), a large DDoS could disrupt all Ethernet services that normally traverse affected links, whereas Waves would be blissfully ignorant
 of such an event. Waves are pretty reliable and will only go down as a result of a configuration error, vendor software issue, or physical/layer 1 failure, all of which can also affect Ethernet services.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is especially important if you select a provider that sees excess capacity as a wasted operational expense instead of an investment in reliability. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Worth noting that protected Waves do have a "reconvergence" time like Ethernet would, but this is typically measured in nanoseconds for shorter distances. Your equipment can probably be configured to not link-down during this gap, you'll
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:41 PM Darin Steffl <<a href="mailto:darin.steffl@mnwifi.com" target="_blank">darin.steffl@mnwifi.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm not arguing for one or the other. Waves will often be cheaper when looking at 10G or 100G compared to ethernet. For 1G or less, ethernet might be cheaper with some protection already built-in.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:31 PM Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Eric Kuhnke" <<a href="mailto:eric.kuhnke@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.kuhnke@gmail.com</a>>, "nanog list" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 14, 2020 3:08:19 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 paths so the only single path that can fail is between you and their first POP where they hopefully have redundancy. It can make a big difference when you're transporting data hundreds or thousands of miles. The longer the path, the less reliable the wave
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<b>To: </b>"Forrest Christian (List Account)" <<a href="mailto:lists@packetflux.com" target="_blank">lists@packetflux.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"nanog list" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, October 14, 2020 2:25:46 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 channel on a legacy 10G DWDM platform, handed off to you with 1310/LX interfaces at both ends), but lit layer 2 transport service between the carrier hotel and your service location.
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 have an empty channel and ready to go interface cards at both ends.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">For instance, the network I am the network engineer for has a circuit which terminates into the Seattle IX (SIX) fabric.   We don't have any other presence in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">We're also looking at dropping 1U or so of equipment in so we can pick up some transit as well, but that's a story for a different day about the joys of providing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In your case, it also looks like there are also some peering options at the datacenters you are currently at as well.   You may want to do some more research
 to determine how that might work in your situation.   PeeringDB is a good resource along with google searches for "peering 100 Taylor" or "peering austin data foundry"<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 13, 2020 7:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Aaron Gould <<a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com" target="_blank">aaron1@gvtc.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">"Aaron Gould" <<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:aaron1@gvtc.com">aaron1@gvtc.com</a></span></u>><br>
<b>To: </b><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org">nanog@nanog.org</a></span></u><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:29:55 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Hurricane Electric AS6939<br>
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Do y’all like HE for Internet uplink?  I’m thinking about using them for 100gig in Texas.  It would be for my eyeballs ISP.  We currently have Spectrum, Telia and Cogent.<br>
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