[36063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Advanced Warning: Qwest/Lucent ATM upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Mar 23 14:28:31 2001
Date: 23 Mar 2001 11:25:48 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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Routing may be weirder than normal this evening. Qwest is upgrading
their Lucent ATM switches to fix a bug, and needs to shutdown their
entire ATM backbone for a couple of hours. Qwest hasn't responded to
my e-mails asking what is happening, but other ISPs have outlined
alternative routes they will be using. Most will try to maintain
service by additional peering, deaggregated routes, or temporary
third-party transit.
Other providers use Lucent ATM switches. I don't know if they
will also need to upgrade their networks at some time in the future
to fix the same problem.
