Software Started MCI Outage

["Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh () concentric net>]

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html

According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda
Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere
on the frame relay network when the device began to
"experience congestion" and the initial outage began.
Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade
occurred or what the upgrade was for.

Henry