8 May
2000
8 May
'00
4:24 a.m.
On 5 May 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
According to Computerworld, the MCI outage affecting CSX rail lines last week was caused by DACS problems.
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000505DCCE
This isn't the first DACS problem nor is MCI the only carrier affected by DACS problems. Bell Atlantic had a multi-day DACS problems, I've experienced 18+ hour MCI DACS problems in the past. What is it about DACS systems which seem to lead to such catastrophic problems? How can you put an entire train system out of operation due to a single piece of equipment?
A start would be if carriers architecture their network to be redundant and self healing. Mo