[43931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thursday Hawaii telephone mishap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Oct 28 16:33:20 2001
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:30:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Steve Goldstein wrote:
> >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.
I don't know what type of network links the Maui Supercomputer Center
has. Whether it was a problem with a commercial Internet provider or
something specific to the Maui spercomputer center.
