Re: I think I jinxed Sprint

[Nathan Stratton <nathan () robotics net>]

On 24 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

> Last week I gave Sprint some complements on their success avoiding
> customer service affecting fiber cuts.
>
> Unfortunately, Murphy took it as a challange.  First, Sprint lost an
> STP power supply which blocked SS7 service in Sprint's southeastern
> network for 2 hours and 52 minutes.  Then on Tuesday, Murphy killed
> a disk drive on Sprint's SCP, blocking Sprint's nationwide network
> for 4 minutes until it could be taken out of service.

STP are deploied in mated pairs, did they say why the other side did not
function correctly.


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