Software Started MCI Outage

Thu Aug 12 03:47:04 UTC 1999

But we know talking about successful upgrades isn't nearly as interesting. ;-)

-Mark

At 06:25 PM 8/11/99 -0400, Todd Romero wrote:

>coincidentally, that _very_ same evening, (thurday night) Bell Atlantic
>asked for a 10 minute maintence window on an SMDS Ds3 that connects a
>small regional popsite. When asked what the maintence was for, i was
>informed it was "to do a software upgrade on the switch"  :O
>
>
>On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Henry R. Linneweh wrote:
>
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html
> >
> > According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda
> > Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere
> > on the frame relay network when the device began to
> > "experience congestion" and the initial outage began.
> > Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade
> > occurred or what the upgrade was for.
> >
> > Henry
> >