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RE: AT&T Outage cause last week.
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There is supposed to be a press conference on this at 2PM today with the=
CEO's of both AT&T and Cisco. More information on this should come out
at this time.
Bill Goldstein
Senior Internet Specialist
AT&T
wgoldstein@att.com
TEL:(412)642-7288
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According to AT&T, in a story just released, the problem was a Cisco
code problem. It would be interesting to hear what the actual
software
cause was, if anyone from Cisco cares to let us know?.../rlj
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- - - AT&T's network failure AT&T Corp. reported
today that last week's frame relay network failure
was due to a software-based problem. =
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Last Monday's network failure disrupted service
nationally for thousands of AT&T's business
customers for about a day. =
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The cause of the outage was previously attributed
to the interaction between two frame-relay
switches, but AT&T now says it was a software
problem. AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong
said today the company is working closely with
Cisco Systems, which provided its switches, on
ways to fix the problem. =
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The type of network application affected by
frame-relay service is "any kind of high-speed data
applications where large amounts of information
[are] exchanged in quick bursts," Granieri said.
Querying an inventory database is one example of
such an application, he said. Reuters contributed
to this report
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