How did it go?  Had to be some war story
•Of course there was,
•Overall had to be VERY careful at midnight cutting pvcs
•Testing initially didn’t work, took conf with Cisco product manager to resolve issues.  Then fine.  Had incredible lab juryrig of atm switch & routers in multiple bldgs
•NASA’s NISN was first, easy because had spare fiber to GSFC, didn’t have to hotcut.
•Then Abilene was easy, because MAX sells them lambda transport to NGIX, just had change wdm
•USGS, NLM, and MAX also easy hotcuts.
•But MCI’s DREN and vBNS were nightmare.