[6117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim J. Steinhardt)
Wed Nov 13 19:11:29 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:53:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jim J. Steinhardt" <jjs@sprint.net>
To: Stephen Meuse <smeuse@noc.bbn.com>
cc: "David L. Wasley" <david.wasley@ucop.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9611131755.ZM1928@noc.bbn.com>
An additional DS3 was recently turned up between MAE-West and Stockton
and other improvements are in the pipeline.
Jim
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Stephen Meuse wrote:
> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:11 -0500
> From: Stephen Meuse <smeuse@noc.bbn.com>
> To: "David L. Wasley" <david.wasley@ucop.edu>
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?
>
> On Nov 13, 2:44pm, David L. Wasley wrote:
> > Subject: high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?
> > I hope this is an appropriate question for this list...
> >
> > We have been experiencing severe packet loss, apparently within the Sprint
> > infrastructure, for several weeks. Recently we've seen as high as 20%
> > loss. Our users are screaming. They can't keep sessions open to resource
> > providers, etc., to whom they are paying large annual fees. Not at all
> > good.
>
>
> I've heard recently that sprint will be adding more capacity to their
> Mae-West connection, but at this point it is just a rumor....
>
>
> >
> > We have been receiving conflicting stories fron Sprint about where the
> > problem(s) is(are), who is responsible, what is being done (if anything),
> > etc.
> >
> > The loss appears to us to be worst at MAE-WEST but it seems to be happening
> > more broadly as well.
> >
> > Can anyone else out there help shed light on this? Is anyone else aware of
> > similar behavior?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David Wasley
> > University of California
> >
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from David L. Wasley
>
>
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