[10862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Wed Jul 16 17:04:12 1997
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:21:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Golan Ben-Oni <bnite@tremere.ios.com>
cc: Matthew Pearson <mpearson@games-online.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970716155255.8361E-100000@tremere.ios.com>
On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Golan Ben-Oni wrote:
> 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.
I know this, I have a copy of the DLRs. What I am saying is Worldcom
changed the DLRs without letting us know, and now they all run over this
fiber cut. We request a copy of the DLRs on ALL our links. We started
this long ago when we had a MCI and Worldcom DS1 die because they went
over the same fiber.
Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc.
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