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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Synergery?
It's definitely not isolated to you. Murphy *loves* me too... And it doesn't take a 15 year old network to find telcos pulled bonehead moves like that, especially on a global basis. How you get them to do it quickly in crises is "operational art", though, and melds with the synergy you speak of... ;-) scott On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Sean Donelan wrote: > > Ever have one of those 'synergy' kind of days? DRA's network dates > back to 1984, and is positively ancient compared to some networks. But > even I was left speechless by today's outage. Here's an extract from > DRA's trouble ticket diary. > > >But, I have been give a bit of background information on why they are having > >so much trouble repairing the circuit. This circuit, a DS3 between LA and > >San Diego, was owned by Western Union, which was bought out by MCI Local, > >which is a part of MCI, which merged with World Comm. So, MCI/World Comm has > >no idea what the circuit ID is of the circuit that is down. There is an MCI > >tech on site in LA tracing cables to see where this circuit plugs into the > >Western Union equipment so that they can trouble shoot it. > > Do other people have problems like this? Or does Murphy just likes me? > -- > Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO > Affiliation given for identification not representation > >
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