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To: GraceZ who wrote (3390)	7/21/2001 1:18:22 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

"I bet those Optical Ethernet and Metro Networks guys couldn't concentrate because they were feet away from a pending major league network disaster." The spur that the fiber carrier has going south from NY-NJ (where they are fully ringed), through the Wash DC corridor is not yet fully protected by a ring, or interlocking ring, architecture. Call it part of a mesh that isn't fully meshed out, yet. Effectively, when they get to meshing it they will at the same time create physical and logical rings, because they are (as we speak) in the process of closing some of those loops right now in DE and MD. The consequences of such a state of vulnerability are well-understood in principle, but here the effects are painfully documented. In another couple of months this might have been a non-event for them, when many of the critical services being carried over their fibers would have been on rings that would have self-healed or restored through automatic protection switching. Of course, a little bit of advance planning - at the expense of using opf <other people's fiber, through swaps> - might have prevented the down effects of this, too.