Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32)

Mon Nov 22 21:59:02 UTC 2004

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:

>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
> > Servicelevels on the Internet suck. Thats the main reason not to use
> > it for anything important. If my frame-connection fails I open my hand and
> > my provider pays a lot until it works again. If "the Internet fails", I
> > have no one I can squeeze the money out of.
> >
> > That massively increases a FR-Providers motivation to have their network
> > running. Penalties can never make up for a lost connection (no
> > provider has enough cash at hand) but it is a nice PART (P=Provider).
>
> Yeah right.  That's why Worldcom's frame-relay network was "unusable" for
> about 10 days and took out part of the Chicago Board of Trade elecronic
> trading system.

and to be fair it might have actually been MCI's network at that time,
with name changes though I'm losing track... not EVERYTHING is worldcom's
fault :)