Re: [outages] Major Fiber Cut in Miami

That defies every common understanding of "SONET ring". Better to call it "linear STS connection" then. =) Frank -----Original Message----- From: mpetach@gmail.com [mailto:mpetach@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Petach Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 1:48 PM To: frnkblk@iname.com Cc: Jason LeBlanc; outages@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] Major Fiber Cut in Miami On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:

If it really was SONET *ring*, how could a fiber cut cause an outage?

Frank

Just because it's a ring doesn't mean it was configured for protection... Matt