North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ATM failure - No the other kind of ATM
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:11:00PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote: > Since there is very little "unique" network equipment in > the world now, just about everyone buys equipment from the > same vendors. So the question is, Can we learn anything from > Citibank's experience. Is there anything about their continuing > problems which may be used to improve general network reliability? I know of at least one major bank that drops the following to their ATMs: - Frame/ATM Frac T1 - ISDN BRI dial backup - 9600 baud X.25 analog dial backup backup If all that fails on a wide scale, you have much larger issues to contend with. Note that there are still a few vendors of ATM switching hardware: Lucent/Ascend Nortel/Bay Cisco/Stratacom Alcatel Marconi/FORE Hitachi NEC Fujitsu ... And this doesn't include all that legacy hardware out there already. *cough cough* Newbridge *cough cough*. --msa
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