Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Geoff Lisk wrote:

Considering about 97% of our data network outages are caused by the telcos, I shudder when I hear that Lucent wants to make my data network as reliable as the voice network.

Data point. We recently had GTE erroneously delete a circuit so completely that they couldnt find it in *any* of their records. Had to have a lineman go out on site and physically trace the circuit back to the CO. Took them 12 hours to get the circuit back up. "Telco quality" my ass. -Dan