On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Golan Ben-Oni wrote:
You should never trust what your sales people say. When designing your backbone, its important to ask them for your DLRs (design layout records) so that you can see physically, with your own eyes, the paths involved.
I know this, I have a copy of the DLRs. What I am saying is Worldcom changed the DLRs without letting us know, and now they all run over this fiber cut. We request a copy of the DLRs on ALL our links. We started this long ago when we had a MCI and Worldcom DS1 die because they went over the same fiber.
And you haven't checked since? In my experience, path redundancy doesn't stay that way. Either the first or second round of grooming in carrier network eliminates the path redundancy, and I don't know if it's possible to win against the transmissions people about that.. We've fought with carriers about that for a very long time, and didn't get anywhere.. -dorian