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Re: A good one from the UUnet NOC

  • From: Steve Mansfield
  • Date: Tue Jul 01 17:57:49 1997

> Here is UUnet's latest response: apparently they've suffered massive
> congestion and an impacted network in about 10 minutes! That's a good

Is that anything lik an impacted molar?

> sales team! Apparently they got their OC-12 network installed ahead of
> schedule as well, as we are finally back to normal:

Maybe things only got temporarily better?  Some customers rerouted traffic
away from that path?  *shrug*

> Forwarded message follows:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:47:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: UUNET Customer Liaison <[email protected]>
> To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> Subject: Re: Customer #UXXXXX (UUXXXXXX)
> 
> Please do not take the (UUxxxxxx) information out of the subject header
> when replying to this problem.  We use this number to track specific
> customer issues.  Thank you.
> 
> The latency you are experiencing in the Bay area is being addressed in the
> next few months with an OC12 network.  This will provide increased bandwidth
> and alleviate some congestion.  

Geez, I hope it takes less than a few months to fix...

Steve Mansfield				 [email protected]
NorthWestNet Network Engineer	         425-649-7467