[20400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Mon Oct 12 00:46:53 1998
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 21:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: Geoff Lisk <glisk@digisle.net>
cc: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810110803.WAA24000@guinness.digisle.net>
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Geoff Lisk wrote:
> Considering about 97% of our data network outages are caused by the telcos,
> I shudder when I hear that Lucent wants to make my data network as reliable
> as the voice network.
Data point. We recently had GTE erroneously delete a circuit so completely
that they couldnt find it in *any* of their records. Had to have a lineman
go out on site and physically trace the circuit back to the CO. Took them
12 hours to get the circuit back up.
"Telco quality" my ass.
-Dan
