Last week Sprint filed a FCC outage report about a DACS failure during a software upgrade. What is up with the DACS vendors. There seems to continuing problems when telco's upgrade the software on their DACS equipment. Since telcos have created a design with DACS as a single point of failure, these outages have a big impact on non-switched services such as data lines. Has anyone heard what, if anything, the telcos and DACS vendors are doing to solve these software upgrade problems on their DACS equipment?
What is up with the DACS vendors. There seems to continuing problems when telco's upgrade the software on their DACS equipment. Since telcos have created a design with DACS as a single point of failure, these outages have a big impact on non-switched services such as data lines.
Sounds like DACS vendors are hiring programmers from router vendors. :) -- Steve Rubin * ser@tch.org * http://www.tch.org/~ser/
At 01:49 AM 1/25/00 -0800, Steve Rubin wrote:
What is up with the DACS vendors. There seems to continuing problems when telco's upgrade the software on their DACS equipment. Since telcos have created a design with DACS as a single point of failure, these outages have a big impact on non-switched services such as data lines.
Sounds like DACS vendors are hiring programmers from router vendors. :)
And transport network "architect"/designers still believe the "fully redundant hardware" is enough to prevent network outages... despite the increasingly large amount of software (written by router guys :-) on their "transport" equipment. dave
-- Steve Rubin * ser@tch.org * http://www.tch.org/~ser/
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