[86552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Phone ouages grow more severe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Nov 10 09:06:14 2005
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:05:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Networks Are Taking Longer
To Repair Despite Focus
On Boosting Reliability
By JESSE DRUCKER and AMY SCHATZ
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
November 10, 2005; Page B10
Despite a new focus on strengthening traditional U.S. telecommunications
systems to withstand terrorism and natural disasters, telephone-network
outages have grown more severe and are lasting longer to repair.
[...]
In the past four years, the median duration of an outage was 3.3 hours --
"significantly higher" than the 2.86 hours it took to restore operations
during the first eight years data were tracked, according to the report.
The severity of the outages -- which takes into account several factors,
including the number of customers affected -- has also jumped over the
past four years.
[...]
