hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina
Art Houle
houle at zeppo.acns.fsu.edu
Fri Sep 18 17:27:22 UTC 1998
'Problem fixed, no trouble found' is the standard telephone company mantra
about outages. yea, right!
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 Goldstein_William at bns.att.com wrote:
> There IS a difference. The FCC keeps records of outages which must be
> reported by the carriers.
>
> It is worth checking these out.
> Bill Goldstein
> Senior Internet Specialist
> AT&T
> wgoldstein at att.com
> TEL:(412)642-7288
>
> ----------
> From: SEAN
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 2:44 AM
> To: nanog
> Cc: SEAN
> Subject: RE: hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina
>
> CMartin at mercury.balink.COM (Martin, Christian) writes:
> >Is it me, or has nearly every cut in the past 6 months been Worldcom
> >glass? Do they have any redundant rings? Looks like their growth
> has
> >been too agressive for sound SONET engineering efforts to be
> employed.
> >But, hey, they have a lot of glass...
>
> I don't have my papers at home, so this is my recollection.
>
> Over the last four years cable cuts and other physical outages seem
> pretty randomly distributed between AT&T, MCI, Sprint and Worldcom.
> Some years one carrier has more, other years a different carrier has
> more.
>
> However the affect of an outage has not been equally distributed.
> Each
> carrier has its strengths in different markets. Worldcom happens to
> be
> fairly strong in the Internet circuit market so you read about
> Worldcom
> cable cuts on Internet lists.
>
> If you were a financial type, you would have thought MCI had a lot
> of problems. Remember the cable cut in Manhatten earlier this
> summer,
> it affected some Internet traffic but the brokers on wall street were
> livid. If you were an airline, you would have thought AT&T had a
> lot of problems. Sprint has problems, but I don't know which market
> segment it is really strong in.
>
> Salespeople for each of the above companies are usually more than
> willing to give you information about the reliability problems of
> their competitors. Getting information about their own company is
> harder. I doubt backhoes or gophers will show any favoritism for or
> against cable installed new competitors such as Qwest or Level3.
>
> Never lose respect for Murphy's power.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
> <<File: RE_ hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina.TXT>>
>
>
Art Houle e-mail: houle at zeppo.acns.fsu.edu.
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