New report from ATIS on Internet/Telephone reliability

Fri Oct 23 12:21:21 UTC 1998

After reading this report, I'm left with an empty feeling. :-)

It doesn't really say anything.

Also, this report only addresses issues surrounding the residential
subscriber, and any other subscribers whose traffic transits the PSTN.
It does not concern private lines/local loops which are terminated
directly into the DACS network(s), of which there are legions (and a
substantially large portion of Internet traffic).

- paul

At 01:17 AM 10/23/98 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:

>The ATIS T1 committee has issued a new technical report on the reliability
>and availability aspects of the interactions between the Internet and
>the public telecommunications network.
>
>ftp://ftp.t1.org/pub/techrpts/tr.0/tr_55.pdf
>
>Abstract
>
>This Technical Report addresses the reliability and
>survivability aspects of the interactions between the
>Internet and the Public Telecommunications Network (PTN). It
>examines the general architectures of both networks and the
>interfaces between them. This document offers suggestions
>for meeting reliability challenges posed by changing network
>traffic characteristics. Two major categories of solutions
>are introduced: network engineering and network
>architecture. Within these categories, alternatives may be
>selected depending on the operator's local circumstances.
>-- 
>Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
>  Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
>