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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures
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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (30221)8/12/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (2) of 44573
 
It is poor TeleCom Planning to rely on one carrier.

When I ran a Telecom Group at Singer Corp., we had Sprint as our Primary but ATT as a backup. If absolutely necessary, we could Xfer to Bell Atlantic but only on Outbound calling.

Once there was a major outage in New York State caused by either Sprint or ATT (I don't recall). Afterwards, they developed a system of offloading traffic to each other to prevent the eventuality of a re-occurance.

At least that is my recollection, it was perhaps 9 years ago.

But for the CBOT to be unprepared for such a problem is as much their fault as MCI's.

DISCLAIMER: I do not now nor do I have Plans to be an MCI Shareholder, whether Directly or Beneficially.

Just occurred to me how much redundancy I have as an individual. I use ATT, Bell, MCI and NEXTEL. If someone can't reach me then the Nuclear Winter must have just started.
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