29 Jul
                
                    2002
                
            
            
                29 Jul
                
                '02
                
            
            
            
        
    
                4:46 a.m.
            
        "The KPNQwest Network Operations Center was CLOSED on 19/07/2002.... "
As everybody knew they did have a really proactive and responsive NOC. It is sad to see things like thi happen. :-(
indeed. it's rare these days that a noc is given enough budget and authority to do a good job. as286 predated the dotcom boom (and bust) by a lot of years and was a fine bunch of folks from the earliest days to the final days. it's really sad to see a successful enterprise swept up by a boom/bust cycle. (i guess anybody who was able to cash out their equity from the kpn/qwest deal saw it as a good thing, but older customers probably wish it hadn't happened.) -- Paul Vixie