[75784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Nov 23 18:01:56 2004
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:01:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0411231659320.28878@clifden.donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > > Yeah right. That's why Worldcom's frame-relay network was "unusable" for
> > > about 10 days and took out part of the Chicago Board of Trade elecronic
> > > trading system.
> >
> > and to be fair it might have actually been MCI's network at that time,
> > with name changes though I'm losing track... not EVERYTHING is worldcom's
> > fault :)
> It was 100% Worldcom. The old MCI people at the time repeatedly pointed
> out that the MCI frame-relay network (also owned by Worldcom at the time)
> wasn't effected.
a kind outside poster set me straight about the Frame outage... apparently
everything IS worldcom's fault! :) So, sorry for the confusion.
