Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

[Nathan Stratton <nathan () netrail net>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Dorian R. Kim wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Golan Ben-Oni wrote:
> > > 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. 
>
> And you haven't checked since? In my experience, path redundancy doesn't stay
> that way. Either the first or second round of grooming in carrier network
> eliminates the path redundancy, and I don't know if it's possible to win
> against the transmissions people about that.. We've fought with carriers about
> that for a very long time, and didn't get anywhere..

Yes, the last time we checked was a little over a month ago. They show the
DLRs were changed last Friday.

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