On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:58:50AM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
He describes it as a long drawn-out exercise in futility. A non-trivial employee has to spend eons on the task. It's a recursive onion peeling, or a data version of Tom Lehrer's "I Got It From Agnes"...
And once done... the errors found, the diversity restored, and the report signed off; it's soon worthless...because the carriers soon shuffle things around Yet Again.
So here's the 64GB/s question: If carriers are being paid to ensure physical separation between circuits for the life of the circuit, why is it that they haven't implemented change management systems (and I don't solely mean the software) to ensure they they *can* (not even that they will) manage to ensure such separation? A simple "don't move this circuit without investigation" flag that would drill-up to higher level flows would seem to be enough -- though certainly I am not familiar with the internals of the CMSen at such scale carriers. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me