[36443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier reliability and diversity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A. Steenbergen)
Thu Apr 5 18:59:26 2001
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:57:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:39:10PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> The air line reservation system Galileo had significant problems
> earlier.
>
> Excerpt from Reuters:
> "The outage began about 8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Wednesday
> and lasted until 10:55 a.m. MDT on Thursday, said Beth Tennis, vice
> present of enterprise networks for Quantitude, Galileo's Denver-based
> networking subsidiary. It affected three of the four T-1 high-speed
> data transmission lines supplied to Galileo by AT&T Corp., said
> Beth Tennis"
4 T1's were down in Denver? Stop the world, I want off. :P
You missed the bigger story about the AOL Instant Messanger outtage for a
large portion of the day (which I heard lots about from all my AIM loving
friends). Doubtless many thousands of network engineers were cut off from
their vital lines of communication.
> Although I've found AT&T has the highest reliability of all the carriers
> I've used. Redundant links from the same carrier frequently have a
Personally I've found AT&T to be a packet motel, packets go in but they
don't come out... To each their own...
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