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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Dorian R. Kim wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Golan Ben-Oni wrote: > > > 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. > > And you haven't checked since? In my experience, path redundancy doesn't stay > that way. Either the first or second round of grooming in carrier network > eliminates the path redundancy, and I don't know if it's possible to win > against the transmissions people about that.. We've fought with carriers about > that for a very long time, and didn't get anywhere.. Yes, the last time we checked was a little over a month ago. They show the DLRs were changed last Friday. 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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