Unnamed Administration sources reported that Henry Linneweh said:
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According to this bbc article in Sci/Tech and Janet took a dump for 24 hours as A direct result.
There's an obvious problem. How could they locate both ends, lift same, splice, and seal the cable in 24 hours?
Any normal (*) person buying transatlantic capacity on a non-SDH cable tends to buy protection bandwidth either in the form of preemption or preemptible bandwidth. (*) = some people obviously elect to take the risk not to do this. Interesting whether they had any SLA's or not. Interesting also to know whether the customers concerned knew this was the situation, if indeed it is as alleged. Some people (one of whom may post back here) use IP as the protection mechanism rather than SDH, which has some reasonably obvious pros and cons (double capacity when everything is working, IGP activity required to switch over, etc.). -- Alex Bligh GX Networks (formerly Xara Networks)