[26352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Y2k silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Dec 27 15:45:54 1999
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:42:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Robert Cannon <rmcannon@mail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Robert Cannon wrote:
> In regards to self fulfilling prophecies:
>
> The phone companies won't admit it but they are scared that at 1 second
> past midnight, everyone will say to themselves, "Hmmm, lights are still on,
> I wonder if the phones have stopped working?" and then within 1 minute,
> millions of people will be lifting their phones off the hooks to check
> dial-tone. You know what happens when that happens. :-)
This is only a problem in some networks. Most of the time the actual
dial tone does not congest the system. As someone who builds telephone
networks I have to say that at least the 26 CLECs I work with will do
fine. :) I am more worried about the people factor, when people freak out
you can have problems.
><>
Nathan Stratton Tricetel Consulting
http://www.tricetel.net nathan@tricetel.net
http://www.robotics.net nathan@robotics.net
> -Hank
