[19486] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Inter-CO signaling?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Fesler)
Tue Sep 15 14:32:03 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:25:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Chad Skidmore <cskidmor@nwnexus.net>,
"'Dan Hollis'" <goemon@sasami.anime.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980915015242.2415L-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
> > The other thing you could do is just ask them.
>
> Where's the smiley face? You can't be serious in that last sentance. 2
> out of 3 telcos are incapable of configuring circuits properly, and the
> more they insist the signalling is set a particular way, the better the
> odds are it's the other way.
The biggest problem is at least out here on the west coast.. the ILEC and
the CLEC's don't check the *Switch* configuration. They check the order,
and assume that the order was followed perfectly. I usually ahve to ask
3-10 times before they check the *switch* - and find it wrong.
