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To: pat mudge who wrote (4097)	4/14/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (1) of 18016

Well it sure looks like the competition products aren't up to snuff. Update: Armstrong Discusses AT&T's Network Outage pubs.cmpnet.com In a press conference today, AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong said he believed a software-generated problem started in two Cisco Systems' StrataCom BPX frame relay switches and propagated itself in about 145 nodes across its frame relay network. --- And this is even more interesting AT&T Searches For Cause of Frame Relay Network Outage pubs.cmpnet.com Without criticizing one of its competitors, MCI's vice president of Internet engineering, Vint Cerf, today said all providers need to improve the redundancy of their data networks to prevent problems like this and bring them up to the reliability standards of the public switched telephone networks in the next year. Not only do providers need to make their own networks redundant, but they need to provide backup systems among themselves, Cerf said. --- If they take his advice this means they have to buy more equipment. Now what is the chances of them buying another lemon or turning to another vendor. Does anybody know Newbridges track record on reliability. This kind of PR isn't good for Cisco. Mike

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