[88249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Buford)
Thu Jan 26 13:15:03 2006
From: "Matt Buford" <matt@overloaded.net>
To: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@burtongroup.com>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
"Pekka Savola" <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Cc: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
"william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:14:32 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"Daniel Golding" <dgolding@burtongroup.com> wrote:
> ConEd Communications was recently acquired by RCN. I'm not sure if the
> transaction has formally closed. I suspect there are serious transition
> issues occurring. "Financial Stability", "Employee Churn", and "Ownership"
> are, unfortunately, tough things to factor into BGP algorithms.
I have no idea if this is really related, but the issue was the same weekend
that ConEd had major network maintenance going on. My ConEd service was
down (NYC area) for the entire weekend (about 60 hours) during their planned
maintenance window to convert their network to MPLS. I saw their
maintenance notice and noticed that the window lasted multiple days. I
expected the link to go down - but I never imagined they meant it would stay
down for the entire maintenance window.
So, I'm speculating that even if there weren't organization issues their
engineers were probably very busy and distracted by the major technical
changes going on.
