From: James.Jackson@broadwing.com
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 19:22:35 GMT-3
and then there's SONET encryption...errh, where were we going with this
again :) If you have a trust no one approach, you'd better have very deep
pockets... being the government of a reasonably sized country should suffice
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:hcb@gettcomm.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:27 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: (IPSec alternatives)
At 12:57 PM -0400 6/12/03, Truman, Michelle, RTSLS wrote:
>The only thing that protects you from the provider is dark fiber and
>private line.
And even that depends on how far you want to take it. The Men in
Black have found ways to cool fiber cryogenically so it can be tapped
invisibly to everybody but Fort Meade.
Of course, private lines are only private (and, unless they are in a
Protected Wireline Distribution System pressurized, alarmed conduit,
with the signal in hardened fiber) until they get to the end office,
where their content gets multiplexed into the carrier's broadband
backbone. If you pull on the Chicago end of your T1 to Miami, the
Miami end will NOT wiggle.
>Beyond that, you are on a partitioned network. Many
>thousands of folks have been comfortable with frame and atm. VRF is no
>different. You have vulnerability in the provisioning process, so you
>better be with a carrier who has systems designed to scale provisioning
>and safeguards for provisioning errors.
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