high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?

Wed Nov 13 23:53:31 UTC 1996

   An additional DS3 was recently turned up between MAE-West and Stockton 
and other improvements are in the pipeline.

    Jim

 On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Stephen Meuse wrote:

> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:55:11 -0500
> From: Stephen Meuse <smeuse at noc.bbn.com>
> To: "David L. Wasley" <david.wasley at ucop.edu>
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?
> 
> On Nov 13,  2:44pm, David L. Wasley wrote:
> > Subject: high packet loss within Sprint infrastructure?
> > I hope this is an appropriate question for this list...
> >
> > We have been experiencing severe packet loss, apparently within the Sprint
> > infrastructure, for several weeks.  Recently we've seen as high as 20%
> > loss.   Our users are screaming.  They can't keep sessions open to resource
> > providers, etc., to whom they are paying large annual fees.   Not at all
> > good.
> 
> 
> I've heard recently that sprint will be adding more capacity to their
> Mae-West connection, but at this point it is just a rumor....
> 
> 
> >
> > We have been receiving conflicting stories fron Sprint about where the
> > problem(s) is(are), who is responsible, what is being done (if anything),
> > etc.
> >
> > The loss appears to us to be worst at MAE-WEST but it seems to be happening
> > more broadly as well.
> >
> > Can anyone else out there help shed light on this? Is anyone else aware of
> > similar behavior?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > 	David Wasley
> > 	University of California
> >
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from David L. Wasley
> 
> 
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