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To: KYA27 who wrote (11233)	11/19/1999 7:14:00 PM
From: KYA27	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

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 in its own key vendor, Lucent. The carrier announced it would construct a network-to-network interface between its two principal frame relay networks - one provided by Lucent and the other by Nortel Networks. It will then offer customers of either platform the opportunity to use the other as a backup. Although customers will have to pay separately for the back-up network, it will be available for 30% below regular frame relay prices. 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. Analysts took MCI WorldCom's moves as quiet benediction 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 but rather integration issues. "The problems were not in J-1," flatly stated Frank Dzubeck, president of Communications Network Architects, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm. 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.