North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: DACS blamed for MCI / CSX train problems last week
On 5 May 2000, Sean Donelan wrote: > > According to Computerworld, the MCI outage affecting CSX rail lines > last week was caused by DACS problems. > > http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000505DCCE > > This isn't the first DACS problem nor is MCI the only carrier affected > by DACS problems. Bell Atlantic had a multi-day DACS problems, I've > experienced 18+ hour MCI DACS problems in the past. What is it about > DACS systems which seem to lead to such catastrophic problems? How > can you put an entire train system out of operation due to a single > piece of equipment? A start would be if carriers architecture their network to be redundant and self healing. Mo > > >
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