[38597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: C&W Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Meltzer)
Thu Jun 7 21:56:59 2001
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:51:47 -0400
From: Jeffrey Meltzer <meltzer@villageworld.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <001e01c0efb7$ae9f4120$c97391d0@vidnet.net>; from moe@vidnet.net on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:09:34PM -0500
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We switched months ago. They're migrating anyone still on the old CWIX
backbone to what they built upon when they bought MCI's network, as far as
I remember. But, we did this a while ago.
It's been fine....
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:09:34PM -0500, Moe Allen typed:
>
> 06.07.01
>
> Well, after another great phone call with the Cable & Wireless staff, I have
> to agree with Sean. C&W is now informing their ISP's with T1 connections
> that C&W is going to be disconnecting the T1's that are currently being used
> and "Cut Over" to a much better C&W (New) network. C&W will setup a time
> that this is going to occur.
>
> As the conversation goes, this is going to be a much faster and better
> network. Since C&W provides us with our T1 backbone, I had to ask. What is
> going on? Is this (New) network, going to just be an ATM circuit or what?
> It appears that no one has an answer. They were just told to contact us or
> in our case this was a letter in our statement, which indicated we needed to
> contact C&W, ASAP. It went on to say, in so many words, failure to contact
> C&W could cause the "Cut Over" to occur, without notice.
>
> After what has occurred this week, it really makes you worry. What is C&W
> up to? And is this going to be good for my business? Or, we're going to
> get the shaft, as the song goes. Anyone else heard anything about this New
> and Improved, faster network that C&W is telling us about?
>
> Just a thought...
> Morris Allen
> VidcomNet, Inc.
>
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