[89271] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Mar 6 11:27:23 2006
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:26:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <00F8EDB4-7D6A-481B-A667-13CCE5CDB185@kuhtz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> That being said, the 'new ATT' with all those assets will need to be
> integrated, and work efficiently. Turf battles will ensue. Tens of
Integration, going on past experience, is highly unlikely. The last time
I had any interaction with Worldcom regarding circuit/provisioning issues,
there was little, if any integration of legacy engineering/provisioning
data/OSSen. In other words, "Oh, that's an MFS circuit ID, I'll need to
get onto another system to get the details on it." Same thing with
different incarnations of Bell of Pennsylv^H^H^H^H^HBell
Atl^H^H^H^HVerizon. It's the same phenomenon of having 37 different
numbers to call to get anything done at $RBOC, none of which are connected
to each other. If their phone tree is that disorganized, I have little
reason to suspect the underlying support systems are any different, nor
will they be under the SB^H^H^HNew AT&T.
jms
