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Re: More DACS problems
- From: dave o'leary
- Date: Tue Jan 25 18:33:39 2000
At 01:49 AM 1/25/00 -0800, Steve Rubin wrote:
>
> What is up with the DACS vendors. There seems to continuing problems
> when telco's upgrade the software on their DACS equipment. Since telcos
> have created a design with DACS as a single point of failure, these
> outages have a big impact on non-switched services such as data lines.
>
Sounds like DACS vendors are hiring programmers from router vendors. :)
And transport network "architect"/designers still believe the "fully redundant
hardware" is enough to prevent network outages... despite the increasingly
large amount of software (written by router guys :-) on their "transport"
equipment.
dave
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Steve Rubin * ser@tch.org * http://www.tch.org/~ser/
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