OUTAGE: DACS failure in USWEST/spokane
Sean Donelan
SEAN at SDG.DRA.COM
Sun Dec 27 10:37:32 UTC 1998
This morning USWEST lost a DACS serving Spokane (and other places
in Washington State).
That isn't very unusual, but did spark my interest in a continuing pattern
of DACS failures around the country. Not only have several telco's we
use had DACS failures (usually a power supply), but the mean time to
repair (and reprogram) them was over 12 hours.
Whatever method of quickly re-loading the repaired DACS configuration
doesn't seem to be working, or the operational procedures of several
telephone companies are lacking. Generally after 10-12 hours, the telco
usually informs us they are manually re-programming the DACS circuit by
circuit.
Have other network operators seen the same thing from their facility
departments or providers? Is this a problem with the DACS vendor, user-
interface design, operator procedures, or dumb management?
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
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