-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Luke Youngblood Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:16 PM To: 'Dan Lockwood'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring: Two redundant connections to the central office. If someone gets a little crazy with a backhoe your line is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure they will refund part of your monthly bill if you have an outage). That's why it costs over twice as much.

Ask for the DLR to assure this. SONET=redundancy is a misnomer. -M<