Clay Takaya: Philosophy 101:
-MCI has figured the LU/ASND network stinks
( 7 day Chicago black-out )
-so they say: better get MAACO!!
so they get a Nortel back up.
-but, they don't want to admit ( and let their customers
know they screwed up ).
-So, they re-name Nortel, " The back up system ",cause
they can't call it the " ?real system? ", after all the
millions they spent on LU/ASND.
-to pacify any aggrieved ( blacked out customers ) ready to
ditch MCI, they " discount it 30% ".
-So MCI now has two switches to do the work of one.
-The MBA and Engineer that figured this system I would
certainly have flunked in my High School.
But nowadays, schools are not what they used to be. With
tight labor markets I am certain this is all that's left to hire.
As soon as the
NN 50 GB/450 scalable to 1 trbit DUCATI monster
comes out I will drag race you ,LU&ASND , Clay down
Sunset Boulevard.
Bring all your first aid kits along.
NN will take no prisoners.
Well call the ambulance for you though,
TA
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Here is the blue smoke and mirrors Clay ( in italics ).
Message 12011186
MCI WorldCom frame relay backup favors Lucent platform
By David Rohde
Network World Fusion, 11/19/99
MCI WorldCom yesterday
launched several new frame relay
back-up initiatives,
in the process
appearing to reassert its faith
( appearnces, blue smoke and mirrors )
in its own key vendor, Lucent.
" It will then offer customers of either platform the
opportunity to use the other as a backup."
(because each one will not work on it's own,
and we know there is a high potential for failure;
man, 1 week blackout and nobody HAD & still HAS NO CLUE
as to what happened or how to fix it!!!!! GGGGG)
" Although customers will have to pay separately
for the back-up network,"
( " of course; this Chicago fiasco has cost us an arm
and a leg; almost put us out of biz; you don't expect to
get it for for free do you?")
"it will be available for 30% below regular frame relay prices ".
( " we are so nice; we know we sold you a lemon and you
deserve a new car, but we know your accountant is just as
dumb as ours and we are certain he will agree to get a new
( lemon ) for 30% discount, instead of a new car that is
owed to you ).
After al he IS getting 30% off right??!! " )
MCI WorldCom also announced it is beginning
construction on a parallel Lucent network using
the vendor's ATM based CBX 550 switches and
its Jade-2 software load. Jade-2 is a variation of
Jade-1, also called J-1, the software load that
triggered the failure of the Lucent network for up
to 10 days in August. When complete in the first
half of 2000, the new Lucent platform will be
integrated with the existing one, giving the overall
network greater scalability to accommodate
growth.
"you get two parallel lemons instead of one;
we are going back to the drawing board.
hopefully neither will go sour again.
Just be patient MCI: after all you don't want your
customers to think you made a dumb choice"
Analysts took MCI WorldCom's moves
as quiet benediction = Analyst's spiel
to continue with the Lucent network
and as a signal that
it was not Lucent's code itself
that was at fault in the August incident
( of course not,)
but rather
" INTEGRATION ISSUES "
(note: any of our numerous SI engineers can tell us what this means?
gbh? ZO? Ian ? Peppe?
Does it have anything to do with Civil rights for example?
Or maybe I am just too stupid to get it .
Thanks
"The problems were not in J-1," flatly stated Frank Dzubeck,
I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky
president of Communications Network Architects, a Washington, D.C.,
consulting firm.
( Is this the guilty party????? GGGGG )
MCI WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers had
appeared to blame Lucent
shortly after the August outage
but company
officials have been backing away
from that statement ever since.
" we had no choice honey ; sh.'t just happens!"
Good job, Clay,
See you Sunday at the race!!!!!!!!!( and don't forget your
helmet!!! ).
TA
Message #14854 from Clay Takaya at Nov 20 1999 10:44AM
Your sudden bursts of misinformation are truly stunning, Tunica. Read this article and get the situation right.
Message 12011186
I suggest the rest of you read it as well in case you were counting on a wave of defections to NN's ATM switch due to the WCOM FR problems.
Disclosure: I am long
NN for a takeover play and I further suggest that this is the ONLY reasonable hope of making money here.
Clay |
