Re: ATM failure - No the other kind of ATM

["Majdi S. Abbas" <msa () samurai sfo dead-dog com>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:11:00PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Since there is very little "unique" network equipment in
> the world now, just about everyone buys equipment from the
> same vendors.  So the question is, Can we learn anything from
> Citibank's experience.  Is there anything about their continuing
> problems which may be used to improve general network reliability?

        I know of at least one major bank that drops the following
to their ATMs:

        - Frame/ATM Frac T1
        - ISDN BRI dial backup
        - 9600 baud X.25 analog dial backup backup

        If all that fails on a wide scale, you have much larger
issues to contend with.

        Note that there are still a few vendors of ATM switching 
hardware:

        Lucent/Ascend
        Nortel/Bay
        Cisco/Stratacom
        Alcatel
        Marconi/FORE
        Hitachi
        NEC
        Fujitsu
        ...

        And this doesn't include all that legacy hardware out there
already.  *cough cough* Newbridge *cough cough*.

        --msa