[90098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Verizon disconnects GlobalNAPs knocking out dialup in MA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Tue Apr 25 15:50:26 2006
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From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:50:00 -0400
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Although dialup modem pools are a dying breed they are still very
much in use around the country. It appears that after many years of
legal battles Verizon has decided to terminate all connections to
GlobalNAPs in Massachusetts. As you may or may not know, GlobalNAPs
handles a lot of dialup modem traffic, including my Tivo and a DS-3
worth of my modems. Billing dispute gone amuck, I don't know who's
right or who's wrong but thousands of customers are off-line now
because of it.
Looks like it'll be a long night tonight :/
Anyone familiar with a Tekelec T7000/Taqua OCX switch and the maze of
Verizon paperwork needed to finish getting it online? Once my LRN is
activated I can port my modem numbers to my own switch. If they could
have just waited a couple of days.
-Matt
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Matthew S. Crocker
Vice President
Crocker Communications, Inc.
Internet Division
PO BOX 710
Greenfield, MA 01302-0710
http://www.crocker.com
