Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

[Nathan Stratton <nathan () netrail net>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Golan Ben-Oni wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> > Ya, we are going to kill worldcom for this one, they say they have 496 DS3
> > connections down. We have 3 connections into our Palo Alto POP, and
> > Worldcom said they all are over different fiber paths. As of right now
> > they all are down.
>
> You should never trust what your sales people say.  When designing your
> backbone, its important to ask them for your DLRs (design layout records)
> so that you can see physically, with your own eyes, the paths involved.

I know this, I have a copy of the DLRs. What I am saying is Worldcom
changed the DLRs without letting us know, and now they all run over this
fiber cut. We request a copy of the DLRs on ALL our links. We started
this long ago when we had a MCI and Worldcom DS1 die because they went
over the same fiber. 

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