[10758] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: MCI & This weeks Net comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Tue Mar 8 03:45:16 1994
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 18:33:45 -0800
To: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
From: fbaker@acc.com (Fred Baker)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>MCI fiber outage in California - says it all. Where's the beef ?
>
>I am sorry - Where's the backup ?
Oh, that's easy. It's on the same fiber as the primary.
The way our access provider (Cerfnet) tells it, there's no way to tell the
phone company "I want this allotted bandwidth to have a different physical
path than that bandwidth." So, we're subject to Backhoe Effect again.
You'd think people would learn, wouldn't you? :^)
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Fred Baker (fbaker@acc.com)
Advanced Computer Communications
