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.