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RE: hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina

  • From: Art Houle
  • Date: Fri Sep 18 14:39:08 1998

'Problem fixed, no trouble found' is the standard telephone company mantra
about outages.  yea, right!

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 [email protected] wrote:

> There IS a difference.  The FCC keeps records of outages which must be
> reported by the carriers.   
> 
> It is worth checking these out.
> Bill Goldstein
> Senior Internet Specialist
> AT&T
> [email protected]
> TEL:(412)642-7288
> 
>    ----------
>    From:       SEAN
>    Sent:       Thursday, September 17, 1998 2:44 AM
>    To:         nanog
>    Cc:         SEAN
>    Subject:    RE: hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina
>     
>    [email protected] (Martin, Christian) writes:
>    >Is it me, or has nearly every cut in the past 6 months been Worldcom
>    >glass?  Do they have any redundant rings?  Looks like their growth
>    has
>    >been too agressive for sound SONET engineering efforts to be
>    employed.
>    >But, hey, they have a lot of glass...
>     
>    I don't have my papers at home, so this is my recollection.
>     
>    Over the last four years cable cuts and other physical outages seem
>    pretty randomly distributed between AT&T, MCI, Sprint and Worldcom.
>    Some years one carrier has more, other years a different carrier has
>    more.
>     
>    However the affect of an outage has not been equally distributed.
>    Each
>    carrier has its strengths in different markets.  Worldcom happens to
>    be
>    fairly strong in the Internet circuit market so you read about
>    Worldcom
>    cable cuts on Internet lists.
>     
>    If you were a financial type, you would have thought MCI had a lot
>    of problems.  Remember the cable cut in Manhatten earlier this
>    summer,
>    it affected some Internet traffic but the brokers on wall street were
>    livid.  If you were an airline, you would have thought AT&T had a
>    lot of problems.  Sprint has problems, but I don't know which market
>    segment it is really strong in.
>     
>    Salespeople for each of the above companies are usually more than
>    willing to give you information about the reliability problems of
>    their competitors.  Getting information about their own company is
>    harder.  I doubt backhoes or gophers will show any favoritism for or
>    against cable installed new competitors such as Qwest or Level3.
>     
>    Never lose respect for Murphy's power.
>    --  
>    Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
>      Affiliation given for identification not representation
>     
>    <<File: RE_ hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina.TXT>>
>     
> 

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