[28797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bell Atlantic DACS failure 280 T3s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Pugh)
Tue May 16 16:57:34 2000
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:54:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Travis Pugh <tpugh@shore.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I'm curious about BA DACS. I don't know if this is standard, but they
are the only telco who has also told me "we put a loop up on the DACS,
but sometimes it doesn't work ... so don't assume that it is a valid
test." And I have witnessed that same happening. If you can't create a
simple maintenance loop on BA's DACS, their choice of vendors does seem
questionable.
-travis
On 16 May 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Bell Atlantic lost another DACS yesterday taking out 280 T3s for 3-1/2 hours
> in the northeastern corridor and New York City.
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> I'm not a transmission person, but what is the problem with DACS? Why
> do these "highly reliable" systems fail in such catastrophic ways?
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