[41294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM failure - No the other kind of ATM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Whalen)
Wed Sep 5 17:09:50 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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I hear the branch tellers are loving it..
Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity
On 5 Sep 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> As most US residents are aware, the Citibank ATM/Automatic
> Teller Machine network failed last night. Citibank is
> still having problems today.
>
> >From Reuters:
>
> "The Citibank ATM network and other systems experienced a
> temporary outage last evening." "While our systems were
> restored by early Wednesday morning, we have continued to
> experience difficulties this morning. We're working hard
> to resolve the issues as quickly as possible."
>
> Since there is very little "unique" network equipment in
> the world now, just about everyone buys equipment from the
> same vendors. So the question is, Can we learn anything from
> Citibank's experience. Is there anything about their continuing
> problems which may be used to improve general network reliability?
>
> I tried to find out some information from Citibank's web site
> about the issue, but I didn't see anything.
>
>
