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Interesting. Out of about 350 PVCs on an OC3 in to the Newark ATM switch cluster, we're seeing four circuits down; could be considered normal.. We're not seeing any additional loss or latency at this point. On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Robert Boyle wrote: > > At 08:11 PM 8/17/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >verizon techs are encountering problems with equiptment in the entire > >mid-atlantic region. ADSL outages are expected, and may last several > >hours each. they will be rolling outages, rather than blanketing the > >entire former BA territory at once. > > > >i didn't get a lot of details from the 5 different people in 3 > >different departments that i talked to, but it sounded gnarly and > >everyone was sounding very pessimistic. > > > >i gathered that there was some routine maintainance that turned into > >this widespread outage. they expect areas to be going up and down for > >"the entire weekend." one tech told me to advise my customers to > >reset their modems before attempting to connect again, but he couldn't > >explain to me what was going on. > > > >fun fun fun. > > > >anyone else hear a different story? > > This is the official notice. It isn't supposed to start for another 3 > hours, but we have been seeing periodic bouncing on about 30-40 customer T1 > lines. > > 8/18/2001 - Verizon has notified us of scheduled network outage: "...to > allow the upgrade of the Frame Relay CBX-9000/500 switches in the Atlantic > Coastal LATA of New Jersey. The planned upgrade being instituted will bring > extended functionality and ensure a more robust network through deployment > of new software and hardware revisions. This upgrade will take place on > August 18th, 2001. All work directly affecting customer circuits is > scheduled to begin no earlier than midnight and end no later than seven AM. > Please be aware that while the upgrade is taking place, you may experience > sporadic PVC interruptions due to rerouting, on your frame relay circuits > in this LATA. The scheduled window for circuits to be down is four hours. > Your circuits may be down for all or part of this four hour window." As > always, Tellurian's NOC will be monitoring circuits and opening tickets if > any customer's service is not restored by 7AM as promised by Verizon. > > All our Verizon Frame Relay and ATM circuits are ok at this time. > > -Robert > > > > Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection > http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 > "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot > > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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