North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32)
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nils Ketelsen wrote: > > Servicelevels on the Internet suck. Thats the main reason not to use > > it for anything important. If my frame-connection fails I open my hand and > > my provider pays a lot until it works again. If "the Internet fails", I > > have no one I can squeeze the money out of. > > > > That massively increases a FR-Providers motivation to have their network > > running. Penalties can never make up for a lost connection (no > > provider has enough cash at hand) but it is a nice PART (P=Provider). > > Yeah right. That's why Worldcom's frame-relay network was "unusable" for > about 10 days and took out part of the Chicago Board of Trade elecronic > trading system. and to be fair it might have actually been MCI's network at that time, with name changes though I'm losing track... not EVERYTHING is worldcom's fault :)
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