[24641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Synergery?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (scott w)
Tue Jul 27 14:48:25 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:46:12 -1000 (HST)
From: scott w <scott@digisle.net>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990727061223.8870@SDG.DRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It's definitely not isolated to you. Murphy *loves* me too... And it
doesn't take a 15 year old network to find telcos pulled bonehead moves
like that, especially on a global basis. How you get them to do it
quickly in crises is "operational art", though, and melds with the synergy
you speak of... ;-)
scott
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Ever have one of those 'synergy' kind of days? DRA's network dates
> back to 1984, and is positively ancient compared to some networks. But
> even I was left speechless by today's outage. Here's an extract from
> DRA's trouble ticket diary.
>
> >But, I have been give a bit of background information on why they are having
> >so much trouble repairing the circuit. This circuit, a DS3 between LA and
> >San Diego, was owned by Western Union, which was bought out by MCI Local,
> >which is a part of MCI, which merged with World Comm. So, MCI/World Comm has
> >no idea what the circuit ID is of the circuit that is down. There is an MCI
> >tech on site in LA tracing cables to see where this circuit plugs into the
> >Western Union equipment so that they can trouble shoot it.
>
> Do other people have problems like this? Or does Murphy just likes me?
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
>
