So why are
we discussing 1483 anyway?
•Converting
a national NAP from atm to gige isn’t like changing over your campus
net at midnight. Replacement
lines have to be arranged, peer partners have to coordinate
ints, downtime has to be minimal because they’re paying for
uptime
•The
biggest issue was how to do the transition without massive flag-day
changeover nightmare
•With
testing, realized that the Cisco OSM blade bridged-routing would allow us
to single-endedly change over each peer at midnight without any of
their full-mesh of peers needing to be there.