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On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Golan Ben-Oni wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote: > > Ya, we are going to kill worldcom for this one, they say they have 496 DS3 > > connections down. We have 3 connections into our Palo Alto POP, and > > Worldcom said they all are over different fiber paths. As of right now > > they all are down. > > You should never trust what your sales people say. When designing your > backbone, its important to ask them for your DLRs (design layout records) > so that you can see physically, with your own eyes, the paths involved. I know this, I have a copy of the DLRs. What I am saying is Worldcom changed the DLRs without letting us know, and now they all run over this fiber cut. We request a copy of the DLRs on ALL our links. We started this long ago when we had a MCI and Worldcom DS1 die because they went over the same fiber. Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16
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