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To: Matt Meagh who wrote (44072)	4/13/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: bucky89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Kernan on CNBC just reported that ATT has been having Frame Relay problems today causing a service interruption & that they are trying to locate the cause. Anyone know who supplies that equipment to them? Multiple vendors? From what I recall, they have mostly Stratacom Frame Relay Switches (AXIS & BPX). Maybe some Cascades mixed in.

To: Matt Meagh who wrote (44072)	4/13/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: HEXonX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

Yep, the Stratacom switches were/are crashing all day. Nice to know that Cisco has such a fine product... Maybe it's not Y2K compatible hehehe. HEX

To: Matt Meagh who wrote (44072)	4/13/1998 8:53:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

>...ATT has been having Frame Relay problems today causing a service interruption & that they are trying to locate the cause. I can confirm that the AT&T frame relay cloud is down, and has been most of the afternoon. This is a BIG deal! Last I heard, they didn't know the cause (it's not supposed to be possible), and were working to being up the cloud one piece at a time. Will pass along any further details I get.

To: Matt Meagh who wrote (44072)	4/13/1998 9:13:00 PM
From: Dennis R. Duke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

A trusted Yahoo said the following when I questioned his information about it being Cisco's Frame Relay problem on Yahoo this evening: The old Interspan Network is based on Stratacom IPX 16's. The really old Frame Relay from Stratacom. AT&T has about a billion of these little switches. I know this because I know their network (very well). In addition use logic, ASDN services were only announced a few months ago. It will take months to install all the new ASND switches, most of which have no customers on them yet. Nope... plain and simple... this is a pure CSCO problem... and yes if I was Mory I would be grinning ear to ear right now... And so am I, <-: Dennis :->