[19644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC outage reports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Sat Sep 19 07:45:07 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: 19 Sep 1998 11:28:56 +0000
In-Reply-To: Sean Donelan's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 1998 15:06:44 -0500"
In article <980918150644.eb48@SDG.DRA.COM>,
Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM> wrote:
> FCC outage reports by year and inter-exchange carrier
>
> 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
> AT&T 3 15 7 18 17
> MCI 13 12 19 9 15
> Sprint 3 11 3 12 9
> WorldCom NA NA NA 7 13
>
> There are all sorts of normalization problems, different reporting
[...]
You'd also want to look at more than just the count of outage reports;
the size of the outages matters, the total size of the network, and
the MTTR. If you "had to" distill it to a single number I suppose
percentage uptime is the one to use.
I'm not sure fiber cuts are common enough to make a meaningful
statement about the reliability of one carrier vs. another.
--
Shields, CrossLink.
