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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Carrier reliability and diversity
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:39:10PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote: > > The air line reservation system Galileo had significant problems > earlier. > > Excerpt from Reuters: > "The outage began about 8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Wednesday > and lasted until 10:55 a.m. MDT on Thursday, said Beth Tennis, vice > present of enterprise networks for Quantitude, Galileo's Denver-based > networking subsidiary. It affected three of the four T-1 high-speed > data transmission lines supplied to Galileo by AT&T Corp., said > Beth Tennis" 4 T1's were down in Denver? Stop the world, I want off. :P You missed the bigger story about the AOL Instant Messanger outtage for a large portion of the day (which I heard lots about from all my AIM loving friends). Doubtless many thousands of network engineers were cut off from their vital lines of communication. > Although I've found AT&T has the highest reliability of all the carriers > I've used. Redundant links from the same carrier frequently have a Personally I've found AT&T to be a packet motel, packets go in but they don't come out... To each their own... -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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