On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:12:29 PDT, JC Dill said:
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
What's the going rate these days that you have to pay to make sure your fiber gets spliced first rather than that other customer's 10GE?
I'm not familiar with cable break splicing procedures, but is it even possible to pay extra to have your splice done first? I would think that the logistics of splicing are such that the guy down in the hole doesn't know whose traffic is on each strand in the bundle
Exactly - which is a case for just having everybody's traffic mingled on a very busy 12-pair rather than several 96-pair with lots of dedicated links, *everybody* ends up back in service a lot faster... And remember - this industry has more trouble with backhoes and would-be copper thieves than terrorists. Anybody who is defending against terrorists by increasing their vulnerability to backhoes is, well...