[10859] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Golan Ben-Oni)
Wed Jul 16 16:25:45 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 15:58:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Golan Ben-Oni <bnite@tremere.ios.com>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
cc: Matthew Pearson <mpearson@games-online.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970716143738.3017A-100000@netrail.net>
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>
> Ya, we are going to kill worldcom for this one, they say they have 496 DS3
> connections down. We have 3 connections into our Palo Alto POP, and
> Worldcom said they all are over different fiber paths. As of right now
> they all are down.
You should never trust what your sales people say. When designing your
backbone, its important to ask them for your DLRs (design layout records)
so that you can see physically, with your own eyes, the paths involved.
-Golan
