[41321] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM failure - No the other kind of ATM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Thu Sep 6 02:57:44 2001
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:57:09 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010905235709.A13240@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
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In-Reply-To: <20010905201100.17494.cpmta@c011.snv.cp.net>; from sean@donelan.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:11:00PM -0700
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:11:00PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 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 know of at least one major bank that drops the following
to their ATMs:
- Frame/ATM Frac T1
- ISDN BRI dial backup
- 9600 baud X.25 analog dial backup backup
If all that fails on a wide scale, you have much larger
issues to contend with.
Note that there are still a few vendors of ATM switching
hardware:
Lucent/Ascend
Nortel/Bay
Cisco/Stratacom
Alcatel
Marconi/FORE
Hitachi
NEC
Fujitsu
...
And this doesn't include all that legacy hardware out there
already. *cough cough* Newbridge *cough cough*.
--msa
