[24777] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What frame relay switch is causing MCI/Worldcom such grief?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Aug 9 14:54:25 1999
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 11:53:02 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, prabhu_kavi@tenornetworks.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Prabhu --
a particluar implementation does not matter when the underlying idea
is bad. Any circuit routing for data is broken-as-designed.
(BTW, the irrelevance of the particulars is why i omitted attribution
in the first place. This was a comment on the general state of affairs,
not on the situation. Thanks for providing details, though).
--vadim
>From: Prabhu Kavi <prabhu_kavi@tenornetworks.com>
>Vadim,
>Your response is unrelated to the message I replied to, which
>asked about the link state algorithm that Cascade uses.
>As far as I know, nobody has announced which set of MCI Wordlcom's
>switches were responsible for their outage. Since MCI Worldcom
>uses multiple types in their network, statements like "goes as
>predicted - complexity bites" is irresponsible at best, even if it
>is later determined the Cascade switches were actually the cause
>of the outage.
>Prabhu
