On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:39:10PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
The air line reservation system Galileo had significant problems earlier.
Excerpt from Reuters: "The outage began about 8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Wednesday and lasted until 10:55 a.m. MDT on Thursday, said Beth Tennis, vice present of enterprise networks for Quantitude, Galileo's Denver-based networking subsidiary. It affected three of the four T-1 high-speed data transmission lines supplied to Galileo by AT&T Corp., said Beth Tennis"
4 T1's were down in Denver? Stop the world, I want off. :P You missed the bigger story about the AOL Instant Messanger outtage for a large portion of the day (which I heard lots about from all my AIM loving friends). Doubtless many thousands of network engineers were cut off from their vital lines of communication.
Although I've found AT&T has the highest reliability of all the carriers I've used. Redundant links from the same carrier frequently have a
Personally I've found AT&T to be a packet motel, packets go in but they don't come out... To each their own... -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)