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Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:59:02 +0000 (GMT)
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nils Ketelsen wrote:Servicelevels on the Internet suck. Thats the main reason not to use it for anything important. If my frame-connection fails I open my hand and my provider pays a lot until it works again. If "the Internet fails", I have no one I can squeeze the money out of. That massively increases a FR-Providers motivation to have their network running. Penalties can never make up for a lost connection (no provider has enough cash at hand) but it is a nice PART (P=Provider).Yeah right. That's why Worldcom's frame-relay network was "unusable" for about 10 days and took out part of the Chicago Board of Trade elecronic trading system.
and to be fair it might have actually been MCI's network at that time, with name changes though I'm losing track... not EVERYTHING is worldcom's fault :)
Current thread:
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?], (continued)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Stephen Sprunk (Nov 21)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 22)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Owen DeLong (Nov 22)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Stephen Sprunk (Nov 25)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] bmanning (Nov 26)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Nov 27)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Owen DeLong (Nov 27)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Nils Ketelsen (Nov 22)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Nils Ketelsen (Nov 22)
- Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32) Sean Donelan (Nov 22)
- Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32) Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 22)
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- Re: Frame-Relay reliability (was Re: who gets a /32) Christopher L. Morrow (Nov 23)
- large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Pekka Savola (Nov 21)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] bmanning (Nov 21)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Pekka Savola (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] bmanning (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Patrick W Gilmore (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] bmanning (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Patrick W Gilmore (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Pekka Savola (Nov 22)
- Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]] Owen DeLong (Nov 22)