Re: cross connect reliability

[Martin Hannigan <martin () theicelandguy com>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Michael J McCafferty <
mike () m5computersecurity com> wrote:

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>        I am curious; what do you expect the average reliability of your
> FastE
> or GigE copper cross-connects at a colo?

At the physical layer, near zero. If "jiggling and wiggling" is causing
cable failures, they have bigger problems. The last time I had problems with
"jiggle and wiggle" was with techs walking by ds3 xcon farms and "testing"
if the cables were "taught" enough with respect to the termination hardware.
If you pull on them enough, they will come apart and they will fail.

I'd love to see a picture of their xcon frames.

-M<


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