[10702] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: MCI reliability in San Diego
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Bohn)
Sun Mar 6 04:50:21 1994
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 18:31:58 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: Rbohn@ucsd.edu (Roger Bohn)
MCI lost a cable here on Friday. My house and office lost long distance
telephone service, not just the Internet connection. (One of our
residential phone lines uses MCI as the LD carrier.) At least MCI messes
up all of their customers at once, so they have incentives of the right
kind to get more reliable.
It's still not close to AT&T's massive loss of service in NYC a few years
ago due to a dead battery and a burned-out warning light. (Documented in
IEEE Spectrum.)
At 7:06 PM 3/4/94 -0800, Gordon Cook wrote:
>ANS Network Operations Center writes:
>>
>> 03/04/94 ENSS 135 San Diego Unreachable 12:21 - ? EST
>> ENSS 135 San Diego is unreachable due to reasons currently under
>> investigation.
>>
>> ENSS 135 San Diego provides primary paths to networks announced by:
>Obviously. MCI has no route diversity in the area.
>Previously, in the last year or so, MCI cables have been dug up
>and shot at ( yes, in Pasadena ) .
