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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?
At 07:21 PM 10/8/98 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote: >This latest fiber cut just kind of jarred my brain into the >realization of what "telco quality" services really boils down to. > >In the end, all services, both traditional telephony services and >data services, are more alike than people give them credit for. :-) When I first went from MCI to PacBell/ACN an of PacBell veteran picked up the hand-set and made me listen to it. He then asked me what I heard, I said "dial tone", he said, "No, what you heard was a freaking miracle!". At the time, our job was to make the new broadband HFC network as reliable, but cheaper, than the local-loop system. As it turned out, he was right. Building such a system, and keeping it running, decade after decade, *is* a freaking miracle! We had 10,000 customers before SBC pulled the plug. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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