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Re: Software Started MCI Outage
From: "Mark A. Cnota" <mcnota () ameritech net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:47:04 -0500
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 >
Current thread:
- Software Started MCI Outage Henry R. Linneweh (Aug 11)
- Re: Software Started MCI Outage Todd Romero (Aug 11)
- Re: Software Started MCI Outage Mark A. Cnota (Aug 11)
- Re: Software Started MCI Outage Todd Romero (Aug 11)