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To: Hagar who wrote (12693)	8/13/1999 2:34:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 18016

Hagar, your post tells me that as networks and the web become more congested and comples, it becomes more and more difficult for any Company's IT officer to manage the hold thing. Better call GAICO, ie, ATT/IBM/NN, TA@simplifyingthefuture.com aka, leave it to the experts back later eom --------------------------------------------- you said relying too heavily on software-based systems The forwarding of data usually (nowadays) occur through hardware (ASICs, FPGAs, custom ICs...) but the control information necessarily needs to be handled in the background. I can't imagine a system that will take (presumably) SNMP commands and process that in hardware. if changes need to be made, they can be done without taking a network down I think part of the problem is that the changes are done on live networks. The changes can force topology changes coupled with circuit re-routing. These systems are designed to do just that. But if something goes awry where the network becomes unstable and control is lost it becomes much more difficult to make controlled changes on the network to repair it. It becomes harder to debug to know what is causing the instability. I would imagine Ascend is furious at MCI right now I'm sure the finger pointing is going both ways.