At 04:37 AM 12/27/98 -0600, Sean Donelan wrote:
This morning USWEST lost a DACS serving Spokane (and other places in Washington State).
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Have other network operators seen the same thing from their facility departments or providers? Is this a problem with the DACS vendor, user- interface design, operator procedures, or dumb management?
After five years of dealing with USworst ... dumb management. Those guys couldn't find a clue in a clue factory. The Colorado Public utilities commisison (CPUC) penalizes them regularly because they can not even operate their telephone services properly. At one time, USwest was quoting 9-week lead-times for residential telephony servce in Black Forest (Colorado Springs, CO, CPUC requirements is two weeks)! If a telephone company can't even do telephony, how do you expect them to do Internet? Our USworst gateway regularly goes <dead> because they can't even keep their routers configured. (strictly personal experiance/opinion, YMMV) ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer - e-mail: mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.lvrmr.mhsc.com Personal web pages: http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: http://www.mhsc.com ___________________________________________________ I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferson