Sprint midwest/NW backbone issues?

[Dave O'Shea <daveoshea () sbcglobal net>]

Anyone at sprint care to shed some light on a latency
issue that's been going on since December?

(While the SLA credits are always nice, there's
something to be said for actually getting the traffic
from A to B!)

sl-bb20-fw>ping 144.228.241.75
 
 Type escape sequence to abort.
 Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 144.228.241.75,
timeout is 2 seconds:
 !!!!!
 Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip
min/avg/max = 84/115/172 ms
 sl-bb20-fw>

... and Seattle to Dallas:
sl-bb20-sea>ping 144.228.241.51
 
 Type escape sequence to abort.
 Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 144.228.241.51,
timeout is 2 seconds:
 !!!!!
 Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip
min/avg/max = 76/76/80 ms
 sl-bb20-sea>