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Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Sat Aug 10 11:22:54 2002

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:09:05PM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> 
> If the software MTBF would be better, convergence would not be an issue.
> As long as it's an operational hazard to run core boxes (with some
> vendors anyway)  with older piece of code than six months, you end up
> engineering convergence into the networks.

Odd, I think most people would say it's an operational hazard to run code
newer than 6 months old, or at least with less than 6 months of testing on
any particular image.

How they're able to completely break so many critically important things
within 2 weeks between a bugfix code rev is still beyond me. :)

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