BOOM! there goes WorldCom
Golan Ben-Oni
bnite at tremere.ios.com
Thu Jul 17 13:14:21 UTC 1997
Speaking of Worldcom, we just lost a handful of other circuits just now,
As of 8:51 Eastern, including two T3s, and some T1s in the NYC area.
WorldCom claims they have over 100 DS3s involved in this outage.
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Todd Wilkens wrote:
> When Worldcom does change the DLR, you get an automated fax notification
> that states they are performing "maintenance" or a "groom" on your ckt.
> This means there is a high probablity they are changing the design of your
> ckt and your diversity may not exist after the groom. You should probably
> respond to the fax and find out exactly what they are doing.
>
> You can also have your sales rep mark you order in the Wcom database as
> "diversely routed". You also need to specify the ckt you want to be
> diversely routed from. This should stop you ckt from being added to any
> groom packages that are being put together. If your ckt is not marked
> diverse, grooms can occur frequently.
>
> >----------
> >From: randy at psg.com[SMTP:randy at psg.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 5:13 PM
> >To: Nathan Stratton
> >Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> >Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
> >
> >> Worldcom changed the DLRs without letting us know
> >
> >happens all the time. they do that like we move customers between router
> >ports.
> >
> >if you want to maintain path diversity, you have to continually monitor it
> >with your carriers. and then you'll need to go out and physically every
> >once in a while. yes, this is major major pain.
> >
> >randy
> >
>
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