[26890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More DACS problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dave o'leary)
Tue Jan 25 18:33:44 2000
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:29:14 -0800
To: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "dave o'leary" <doleary@juniper.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 01:49 AM 1/25/00 -0800, Steve Rubin wrote:
> >
> > What is up with the DACS vendors. There seems to continuing problems
> > when telco's upgrade the software on their DACS equipment. Since telcos
> > have created a design with DACS as a single point of failure, these
> > outages have a big impact on non-switched services such as data lines.
> >
>
>Sounds like DACS vendors are hiring programmers from router vendors. :)
And transport network "architect"/designers still believe the "fully redundant
hardware" is enough to prevent network outages... despite the increasingly
large amount of software (written by router guys :-) on their "transport"
equipment.
dave
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>Steve Rubin * ser@tch.org * http://www.tch.org/~ser/
