Re: New report from ATIS on Internet/Telephone reliability

[Paul Ferguson <ferguson () cisco com>]

After reading this report, I'm left with an empty feeling. :-)

It doesn't really say anything.

Also, this report only addresses issues surrounding the residential
subscriber, and any other subscribers whose traffic transits the PSTN.
It does not concern private lines/local loops which are terminated
directly into the DACS network(s), of which there are legions (and a
substantially large portion of Internet traffic).

- paul

At 01:17 AM 10/23/98 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:

> The ATIS T1 committee has issued a new technical report on the reliability
> and availability aspects of the interactions between the Internet and
> the public telecommunications network.
>
> ftp://ftp.t1.org/pub/techrpts/tr.0/tr_55.pdf
>
> Abstract
>
> This Technical Report addresses the reliability and
> survivability aspects of the interactions between the
> Internet and the Public Telecommunications Network (PTN). It
> examines the general architectures of both networks and the
> interfaces between them. This document offers suggestions
> for meeting reliability challenges posed by changing network
> traffic characteristics. Two major categories of solutions
> are introduced: network engineering and network
> architecture. Within these categories, alternatives may be
> selected depending on the operator's local circumstances.
> -- 
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
>  Affiliation given for identification not representation