Re: More DACS problems

["dave o'leary" <doleary () juniper net>]

At 01:49 AM 1/25/00 -0800, Steve Rubin wrote:

> >
> > What is up with the DACS vendors.  There seems to continuing problems
> > when telco's upgrade the software on their DACS equipment.  Since telcos
> > have created a design with DACS as a single point of failure, these
> > outages have a big impact on non-switched services such as data lines.
> >
>
> Sounds like DACS vendors are hiring programmers from router vendors. :)

And transport network "architect"/designers still believe the "fully redundant
hardware" is enough to prevent network outages... despite the increasingly
large amount of software (written by router guys :-) on their "transport"
equipment.

                                                dave


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