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Speaking of Worldcom, we just lost a handful of other circuits just now, As of 8:51 Eastern, including two T3s, and some T1s in the NYC area. WorldCom claims they have over 100 DS3s involved in this outage. On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Todd Wilkens wrote: > When Worldcom does change the DLR, you get an automated fax notification > that states they are performing "maintenance" or a "groom" on your ckt. > This means there is a high probablity they are changing the design of your > ckt and your diversity may not exist after the groom. You should probably > respond to the fax and find out exactly what they are doing. > > You can also have your sales rep mark you order in the Wcom database as > "diversely routed". You also need to specify the ckt you want to be > diversely routed from. This should stop you ckt from being added to any > groom packages that are being put together. If your ckt is not marked > diverse, grooms can occur frequently. > > >---------- > >From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]] > >Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 5:13 PM > >To: Nathan Stratton > >Cc: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom > > > >> Worldcom changed the DLRs without letting us know > > > >happens all the time. they do that like we move customers between router > >ports. > > > >if you want to maintain path diversity, you have to continually monitor it > >with your carriers. and then you'll need to go out and physically every > >once in a while. yes, this is major major pain. > > > >randy > > > --- ______ \____/ IDT Corporation E-mail: [email protected] \__/ Golan Ben-Oni Phone: +1 201 928 4357 \/ Sr. Network Architect Pager: 800 225 0256 x 603 0166
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