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To: Peppe who wrote (12688)	8/13/1999 11:56:00 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Peppe, Re: blame for MCI debacle. Why does MCI or other telcos need to upgrade? Why not buy a magnum switch from the get go since everybody has been saying it for the last 4 years that the telco traffic will explode. Why do Telcos keep buying substandard switches that fail massively ( CSCO last year, MCI this year ) when everybody knows that Telco Carriers need 99.999% reliability ( as our very own Pat Mudge so eloquently put it ? <vbg>). Here we are 8 days into this fiasco and Chicago Board of Trade is still closed. Who's next? NYSE? NASDAQ? And we ain't even near y2K. It is not a question of blaming anybody> It's a question that these events shouldn't happen at all. Ask the Chicago Board of T, cheers TA

To: Peppe who wrote (12688)	8/13/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Hagar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

The ATT problem and now the MCI problem are both frame services based networks. I have yet to hear problems of this sort involving ATM networks. I suspect that with ATM being a hardware dominant technology that it is less prone to these issues. Links don't get congested as easily with hardware policing therefor the control traffic never fails. I don't think that CSCO and ASND have much in the way of ATM networks where NN doesn't have much in the way of Frame networks so its less likely that they'll see this problem. I credit this more than "superior" technology.