[10733] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANS - Sue Blair Posting on MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph W. Stroup)
Mon Mar 7 07:10:55 1994
From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 22:30:57 -0800 (PST)
Sue Blair at ANS states that its rare that ANS comments on network outages
to any degree. I must side with Sue. The NSR reports are only a fraction
of the total picture and for the customers to know that a problem has been
detected and is being looked into. ANS is not MCI and they would be very
are aas un-happy as the rest of us when a line goes down.
On the flip side - for the big buck involved ANS should have been required to
provide a parallel T-3 backup system. I know this will cause people to cry
foul but, T-3 circuits are no big deal and to IBM the equip. is no problem.
Its just a profit-losss sort of deal.
Stroup @ the network desk.
