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'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>> > > Art Houle e-mail: [email protected] Academic Computing & Network Services Voice: 644-2592 Florida State University FAX: 644-8722
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