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Re: I think I jinxed Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Nov 24 19:07:56 2000
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:02:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On 24 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Last week I gave Sprint some complements on their success avoiding
> customer service affecting fiber cuts.
>
> Unfortunately, Murphy took it as a challange. First, Sprint lost an
> STP power supply which blocked SS7 service in Sprint's southeastern
> network for 2 hours and 52 minutes. Then on Tuesday, Murphy killed
> a disk drive on Sprint's SCP, blocking Sprint's nationwide network
> for 4 minutes until it could be taken out of service.
STP are deploied in mated pairs, did they say why the other side did not
function correctly.
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Nathan Stratton CTO, Exario Networks, Inc.
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