MAE-West issues Aug 20 1999

Some folks may have noticed MAE-West was a bit flakier than normal this morning. After about six hours, MCI Worldcom finally returned our phone calls. MCI Worldcom was conducting emergency maintenance, and took down some parts of some gigaswitches. No announcements were sent to customers before the switches were taken down. Which isn't unusual, I almost never get prior notification about any MAE maintenance. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation