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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (12751)	8/15/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 18016

zsbyslaw: MCI/WCOM: " working on fix". TA biz.yahoo.com Sunday August 15, 11:51 am Eastern Time MCI WorldCom works to finish data network repairs WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - MCI WorldCom sought on Sunday to complete repairs to a high speed data network that has experienced problems for 10 days, idling the Chicago Board of Trade's electronic trading system and disrupting service to thousands of businesses. The long distance phone company said it took a frame relay network platform out of service on Saturday for 24 hours in an effort to restore stability to the system. Work on the platform, which disrupted service for some Internet customers, was due to be completed on Sunday. MCI WorldCom's (Nasdaq:WCOM - news) network problem began 10 days ago due to a glitch in software provided by Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU - news) The outages affected about 15 percent of MCI WorldCom's network and 30 percent of its customers who rely on high-speed frame relay networks to exchange large amounts of computer information in short and frequent bursts. MCI WorldCom was believed to have some 12,000 customers that rely on high-speed frame relay networks, including the CBOT, Internet service providers, banks and other businesses. The CBOT, the largest U.S. derivatives exchange, said on Friday its electronic trading system, Project A, would remain shut until Sunday night when the exchange moves to its backup system indefinitely. ``Market users worldwide depend on Project A around the clock and MCI WorldCom has let them down for one full week. As a result of MCI WorldCom's failure to deliver on their promises to me early last week, the CBOT is pursuing all available remedies,' CBOT President Tom Donovan said in a statement. Another customer, a major U.S. retailer, said MCI WorldCom's network service began to come back during the middle of last week only to grind to a halt again on Friday morning. ``Things started to get better, but there was some failure overnight and now we are in worse shape than ever,' said one MCI WorldCom customer who declined to be named. The customer said the network problems prevented him from communicating with distributors, other company locations and his clients. ``I've never seen a network outage last a week. If they had been more clear in the beginning about the extent of the problem or their ability to handle it, we could have made other contingency plans. But now we're just going with day-by-day information and that's not helping,' the customer said. The Clinton, Miss.-based MCI WorldCom's outage followed a similar problem at AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T - news) last year. AT&T and other companies such as Qwest Communications International Inc. (Nasdaq:QWST - news) said last week they gained customers as some disgruntled MCI WorldCom clients searched for new service providers.

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (12751)	8/15/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

zbyslaw owczarczyk,Re:MCI/WCOM using NN gear for aviation network. ? More reliable. Probably. The true details " may " come out in time. As for me, I am very suspicious that the MCIWCOM fix will fail again and we'll be back to square one in no time. I suspect the reason for the failure are flimsy Ascend ATMs that can't function as a true backbone. Traffic goes to routers and they haven't been built to handle the traffic. MCIWCOM miscalculated the weight of future traffic and bought into the LU/ASCEND salesmanship. They tried glossing over it for the past 10 days because they thought they would get away with it , just like Billy did. ( if he got away, why can't we?). Unfortunately for WCOM, as they will soon learn, the telco biz is different and I believe unforgiving. Especially when you have other options. They tried pulling the wool over our eyes with the story of " too much congestion ". Well guess what WCOM: the so called "congestion" will only increase. "Congestion" is in Telcos, is NOT a rare side-effect: it is and will be a way of life. The point is , they do not have a true, carrier class backbone that can take the heat. This is why they did not answer the phone to their customers. All they could say for the first 3 days is : we'll fix it soon". Well, you couldn't say that for more than 3-4 days.So they lapsed into silence. They couldn't tell their customers that they have low class equipment.( that would have made them look silly ). They couldn't tell them ( clear out at least ) that Lucent's equipment was faulty, although they hinted at it, because that would have pi--'ed off LU who after all was the only one that could get them out of the fix. So with the CBOT ( their most vocal, persistent and powerful customer, all they could do is continue their lie: "we'll get it up tomorrow". Obviously they couldn't tell the CBOT that they were too congested and to lighten up on their trading activities, <VBG>. So, now they've taken the network down.Rebooted the computers, cleared the hard drive, and we are back at a clean desktop. However Mon, as soon as a horde of anxious, angry,PC addicted, traders etc etc, start thumping away at the phones and PCs, the wires are going to start glowing again in the dark and......poop! lights will be out again,simply because their network is not up to par. just my prediction. I've seen this happen before in Medicine: somebody practicing outside his field of competence: a disaster. Happens every time. Call me Mr.Cynical :) , TA PS: Advice to WCOM: ( are you there?): scrap LU; buy NN. eom ---------------------------------- Tunica,after WCOM took over MCI most of the original NN contract with MCI(fall 97)was lost. Major portion of former MCI was made form old 36150. However,since merger NN has been consistently shipping limited amount of 36170 to MCI, which is using NN gears to power aviation authority network. I want to emphasize:aviation authority network. Why this network was not switch to others gears ? I think you know the answer-people live is priceless! Also since fall of 98 NN has been shipping software upgrade(I think they call it 3.1 version?) to its customer. Some of them are BT,Bell Atlantic,C&W,MCI(limited shipment),SBC etc. During first half of 1999,Bell Canada was performing massive upgrade too. Did you hear about any serious problems. I did not. Anyone else? Zbyslaw

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (12751)	8/15/1999 3:13:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 18016

The Denver Post.: MCI's 'Net snafu felt in state. MCI's 'Net snafu felt in state denverpost.com./business/biz0814a.htm By Stephen Keating Denver Post Business Writers August 14 - A week-long breakdown of MCI WorldCom's Internet backbone is wreaking havoc with business and residential users across the country, including users in Colorado. "It's bad,' said Jason Swenson, president of Internet Colorado in Gunnison, which has 1,000 unhappy customers in Gunnison, Crested Butte and Montrose. "We've been getting beat up pretty good from the users.' An estimated 30 percent of businesses that use MCI WorldCom's high-speed network for Internet access and e-mail have experienced problems, according to Bloomberg News. Among the trouble spots have been thousands of automatic teller machines and the Chicago Board of Trade, which said it will suspend its electronic trading system until Sunday night because of the MCI WorldCom data network problems. Our "members and market users demand and deserve world-class technology and service, and we are receiving neither from MCI WorldCom,' the Chicago board's president, Thomas R. Donovan, wrote in a letter to Bernard J. Ebbers, the MCI WorldCom chief. MCI WorldCom officials cited a Lucent software glitch in its frame-relay data network. Lucent is "working very closely with MCI to solve the congestion issue, working around the clock,' said Bill Price, a Lucent spokesman. MCI WorldCom has a toll-free customer service number, 800-233-4546, which provides updates on the problem. The service breakdown shows the delicate interconnections between huge telecom companies such as MCI WorldCom, the Internet service providers that rely on them, and the end users who pay $20 to $25 a month for Internet access and e-mail accounts. "This is literally knocking smallers ISPs out of business,' said Mark Stutz, a spokesman for RMI.Net of Denver. In December, RMI.Net bought a company called DataXchange, whose 65 ISPs across the country, including Internet Colorado, were down this week because of the MCI WorldCom problems, according to Stutz. "It's easily affecting 250,000 of our customers nationwide,' said Stutz, who cited the first reports of trouble from MCI WorldCom at 10:08 p.m. Aug. 5. MCI WorldCom, which makes about $1 billion in revenue from the frame-relay business, could be liable for compensating aggrieved customers. MCI WorldCom's stock rose $2.313 on Friday to close at $78.438, which is down from a 52-week high of nearly $97 in June.

To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (12751)	8/16/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

August 16, 1999 08:54 TeleHub Signs $13 Million Agreement with TransNet Connect GURNEE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 1999-- Three-Year Agreement Estimates One Billion Minutes of Traffic TeleHub Network Services(tm) (TNS), a wholly owned subsidiary of TeleHub Communications Corporation, today announced the signing of a three-year agreement with TransNet Connect, a switchless long distance reseller. The agreement with TransNet Connect, valued at over $13 million, will utilize TeleHub as an underlying carrier. TeleHub estimates the agreement will generate approximately 180 million minutes of traffic in the first year, increasing to one billion the second year. "TransNet Connect chose TeleHub for our "Power of 1" concept; TNS proudly provides customers with one support structure, one network, and one gateway broker," said Ken Minihan, chief executive officer for TeleHub Communications Corporation. TNS's unique services offer comprehensive and flexible solutions through a wide choice of service options and transmission speeds. The synergy between ATM-based network and the software suite known as PathMinder,(tm) developed by their sister company TeraBridge Technologies, Corp., enables TeleHub Network Services(tm) to deliver integrated voice, data, and multimedia communications options to their customers on a virtual basis, with integrated and enhanced management, billing, and control capabilities provided at the transaction level detail. "It's the combination of TeleHub's reliable network, simplicity, and their intelligent (PathMinder,(tm)) software that attracted us to TeleHub," said Stan Crews, chief executive officer for TransNet Connect. "TeleHub's advanced technology offers data transfer as well as voice transmission. The services TeleHub will be providing to TransNet Connect to market in the future will keep TransNet Connect at the forefront of the telecommunications industry," said Crews. TransNet Connect, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, is a broker of services and products: local, long distance, wireless, Intranet, natural gas and energy. TransNet Connect offers services domestically, with plans to open its market into Canada in the near future. About TeleHub TeleHub Network Services(tm) introduced the first publicly-switched ATM communications network that integrates the delivery of a full range voice, data and video telecommunications services. The Network is controlled by intelligent network software called VASP(tm) (Virtual Access Services Platform). VASP(tm) is supplied by TeraBridge Corp., a joint venture of TeleHub Communications Corporation and Newbridge Networks. This unique ATM/VASP combination gives TeleHub a significant advantage over its nearest competitors. For general information about TeleHub, please call 1- 877-TELEHUB or refer to www.telehub.net.