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At 06:14 PM 10/10/98 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: >[email protected] (Paul Ferguson) writes: >>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. :-) > >I get a chuckle when I see the Lucent advertisments about making the >data network as reliable as the voice network. I understand it is >just marketing, but it does show a rather basic misunderstanding of >the relationship between voice and data network reliability. I guess >it is like most things, the more you learn about a subject the less >you really wanted to know about it. > >Are there similarites between the voice and data networks? Yes. >Are there differences between the voice and data networks? Yes. > >Will the entire telephone system fail? No. >Will the entire Internet fail? No. > >Are there things that can happen to both which will really ruin your day? Yes. Actually, on 2Sep98, PacBell had a CO failure that knocked out service, in Livermore, for 12 hours. Voice, data, everything, not even 911! ___________________________________________________ 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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