Its been a week since the latest provider-wide network failure, so here's a bit of post-mortem. As reported everywhere, the AT&T frame-relay network failed last Monday, April 13, 1998. Since then, AT&T has been catching up in the keeping the customer informed department. Even recognizing the substantial penalty because of the slow initial response, I have to admit that AT&T eventually surpassed most of their competitors in this area. Full disclosure, AT&T did offer me some baseball tickets. The next question is how well will Cisco/StrataCom handle their part in this incident. Was it something unique about the AT&T network, or are other providers who also use cisco/StrataCom frame-relay switches at risk of experiencing the same problem. Or had they already experienced the problem, and updated their switches prior to this event. This isn't the first frame-relay network that has collapsed. And finally, does anyone know why the cloak of secrecy over where the two initial frame-relay switches that failed? Even though the New York Times reported (which doesn't make it true, just highly probable) the switches were in Albany and Cambridge, the AT&T people seem striken by apoplexy when you mention the general location. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation