[22949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OUTAGE: MCI Worldcom nationwide ATM network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Wed Feb 3 19:38:00 1999
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Danny McPherson <danny@qwest.net>
Reply-To: danny@qwest.net
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:24:27 -0700
This is interesting. I don't recall their "entire" ATM network being Cisco ..
or much of it at all for that matter. What was the source of this report?
-danny
> MCI Worldcom had a circuit outage in Indianapolis at about 11:30 CST
> 3-Feb-1999. Since then the MCI Worldcom ATM network has been FUBARed.
> MCI Worldcom believes the problem is in some Cisco equipment, and
> cisco has issued a patch. MCI Worldcom will be reloading their entire
> nationwide ATM network between midnight and 2:00am hoping to fix the
> problem.
>
> I don't know if MCI Worldcom has filed a FCC outage report like AT&T
> did when their frame-relay network had problem.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
