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Re: Famous operational issues
From: Richard Golodner <rgolodner () infratection com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:55:47 -0600
That was the one with the most severe imact for my company. Seven Frame Circuits (UUNET) and we all saw what an updtae can do
On 2/16/21 3:28 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Since you said operational issues, instead of just outage... How about MCI Worldcom's 10-day operational disaster in 1999. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/23/network.nono.idg/ How not to handle a network outage [...]MCI WorldCom issued an alert to its sales force, which was given the option to deliver a notice to customers by e-mail, hand delivery or telephone – or not at all. After a deafening silence from company executives on the 10-day network outage, MCI WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers finally took the podium to discuss the situation. How did he explain the failure, and reassure customers that the network would not suffer such a failure in the future? He didn't. Instead, he blamed Lucent.[...]
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- Re: Famous operational issues Todd Underwood (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sean Donelan (Feb 16)
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- Re: Famous operational issues Richard Golodner (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Justin Streiner (Feb 16)
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- Re: Famous operational issues Eric Kuhnke (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jared Mauch (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Warren Kumari (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Mikael Abrahamsson via NANOG (Feb 16)