[43919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thursday Hawaii telephone mishap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein)
Sun Oct 28 11:33:43 2001
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:32:39 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
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At 2:06 AM -0500 10/28/01, Sean Donelan wrote:
>...Although it receives limited public
>discussion, the public telephone network has significant risks in
>comparison to the Internet. Because of the public discussion, and
>customer demand, ISPs have been forced to invest a lot of money in
>network backups and now offer SLA's significantly better than any
>telephone company offers. On the other hand the telephone network
>has been undergoing a lot of "value engineering" for the last decade,
>reducing their network backups.
>
>I wonder if we have reached the cross-over point, and the Internet is
>now effectively more reliable than the public telephone network.
FYI, at about the time of the break, I was engaged in a Web-based
meeting that included the Maui Supercomputer Center. We were using a
phone bridge in San Jose, CA. The phone conversation persisted, but
Maui's Internet connection dropped.
--Steve
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