Software Started MCI Outage
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere on the frame relay network when the device began to "experience congestion" and the initial outage began. Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade occurred or what the upgrade was for. Henry
coincidentally, that _very_ same evening, (thurday night) Bell Atlantic asked for a 10 minute maintence window on an SMDS Ds3 that connects a small regional popsite. When asked what the maintence was for, i was informed it was "to do a software upgrade on the switch" :O On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Henry R. Linneweh wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html
According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere on the frame relay network when the device began to "experience congestion" and the initial outage began. Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade occurred or what the upgrade was for.
Henry
But we know talking about successful upgrades isn't nearly as interesting. ;-) -Mark At 06:25 PM 8/11/99 -0400, Todd Romero wrote:
coincidentally, that _very_ same evening, (thurday night) Bell Atlantic asked for a 10 minute maintence window on an SMDS Ds3 that connects a small regional popsite. When asked what the maintence was for, i was informed it was "to do a software upgrade on the switch" :O
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Henry R. Linneweh wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html
According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere on the frame relay network when the device began to "experience congestion" and the initial outage began. Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade occurred or what the upgrade was for.
Henry
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