06.07.01 Well, after another great phone call with the Cable & Wireless staff, I have to agree with Sean. C&W is now informing their ISP's with T1 connections that C&W is going to be disconnecting the T1's that are currently being used and "Cut Over" to a much better C&W (New) network. C&W will setup a time that this is going to occur. As the conversation goes, this is going to be a much faster and better network. Since C&W provides us with our T1 backbone, I had to ask. What is going on? Is this (New) network, going to just be an ATM circuit or what? It appears that no one has an answer. They were just told to contact us or in our case this was a letter in our statement, which indicated we needed to contact C&W, ASAP. It went on to say, in so many words, failure to contact C&W could cause the "Cut Over" to occur, without notice. After what has occurred this week, it really makes you worry. What is C&W up to? And is this going to be good for my business? Or, we're going to get the shaft, as the song goes. Anyone else heard anything about this New and Improved, faster network that C&W is telling us about? Just a thought... Morris Allen VidcomNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:09:34 -0500 From: Moe Allen <moe@vidnet.net>
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After what has occurred this week, it really makes you worry. What is C&W up to? And is this going to be good for my business? Or, we're going to get the shaft, as the song goes. Anyone else heard anything about this New and Improved, faster network that C&W is telling us about?
IIRC, a year or so ago, the "old" network meant what the former MCI.Net backbone; the "new" was what they were building. *shrug* That's about all the more that I know. Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.
We switched months ago. They're migrating anyone still on the old CWIX backbone to what they built upon when they bought MCI's network, as far as I remember. But, we did this a while ago. It's been fine.... On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:09:34PM -0500, Moe Allen typed:
06.07.01
Well, after another great phone call with the Cable & Wireless staff, I have to agree with Sean. C&W is now informing their ISP's with T1 connections that C&W is going to be disconnecting the T1's that are currently being used and "Cut Over" to a much better C&W (New) network. C&W will setup a time that this is going to occur.
As the conversation goes, this is going to be a much faster and better network. Since C&W provides us with our T1 backbone, I had to ask. What is going on? Is this (New) network, going to just be an ATM circuit or what? It appears that no one has an answer. They were just told to contact us or in our case this was a letter in our statement, which indicated we needed to contact C&W, ASAP. It went on to say, in so many words, failure to contact C&W could cause the "Cut Over" to occur, without notice.
After what has occurred this week, it really makes you worry. What is C&W up to? And is this going to be good for my business? Or, we're going to get the shaft, as the song goes. Anyone else heard anything about this New and Improved, faster network that C&W is telling us about?
Just a thought... Morris Allen VidcomNet, Inc.
-- Jeffrey Meltzer VillageWorld.com, Inc. Voice 631-218-9090 JFAX 516-977-3009
Migrating off the old MCI backbone is a GOOD thing. (CWIX? BIP?) My old shop was with MCI before C&W bought the ip backbone. We were a small downstream (the ol' static route, /30, T1, with a few /24's to feed the masses.) As far as engineering and support issues go, C&W was top notch. (Router tweaks, security suggestions, etc.) Sales and marketing... not so top notch... (Tip for you account managers lurking out there; unannounced Word or PowerPt email attachments do NOT impress clients.) The new network is real, they've been building it out for quite some time now. They're probably going to cut you over to one of their "N3" nodes. However, in this age of wireless, DSL, and cable modems, a T1 to an upstream's backbone may not make much sense anymore. -bradly
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