[10858] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rbuchals@hotmail.com)
Wed Jul 16 15:31:08 1997
From: "" <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
To: smd@clock.org, mpearson@games-online.com, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:57:42 PDT
>From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
>
>What?! But wait, just a day ago, a UUNET engineer was going on
>about how ATM is good because it helps prevent failures at the IP
layer...
That only works when there's enough reserve bandwidth out there in the
ATM 'cloud' to reroute failed PVCs. You'd think that they would
diversely route their ATM trunks.
Maybe they turned auto-reroute off...
-rb
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