myerston@cts.sri.com (10/11/89)
It must be amusing (or maybe depressing) to AT&T network planners
to find that whenever one of the other Common Carriers experiences
outages, the expectation is that AT&T will be able to instantly
provide overflow capacity at a pre-divestiture P.01 grade of service.
Such outages are usually reported as "SPRINT fiber cut, AT&T
circuits overloaded" as if each were equally to blame!. The fact that
the OCCs routinely use AT&T facilities to complete calls to remote
locations is equally unknown to press and public.
It would interesting to find out how much of AT&T's traffic
SPRINT or MCI could carry in a emergency.
In fact, one of the strengths of the OCCs is that they have such
great backup facilities: AT&T. [On this basis it makes sense to use
an OCC as your principal carrier with AT&T as backup/overflow] It will
be interesting to see what happens as AT&T adjusts its network to
reflect its share of the market.ekk@pro-palace.cts.com (Ed Kern) (10/14/89)
Reminds me of a call I made through ITT (10999) recently to
312/772-0347 (recently disconnected)... instead of getting the usual
recording from Illinois Bell (like I would get using US Sprint or
AT&T) I got a message telling me that "ITT is unable to complete my
call to this number. Please hang up, dial 10288, then one plus the
area code and number. AT&T will bill you for the call".......
Ed Kern "Are you finished with that baked potato?"
Wyomissing, PA -M. Fichter
Voice: 215/678-5741 ProLine: pro-palace!ekk
UUCP: crash!pro-palace!ekk ARPA: crash!pro-palace!ekk@nosc.mil
Internet: crash!ekk@pro-palace.cts.comdave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) (10/15/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0440m11@vector.dallas.tx.us>, myerston@cts.sri.com writes: ... > Such outages are usually reported as "SPRINT fiber cut, AT&T > circuits overloaded" as if each were equally to blame!. The fact that > the OCCs routinely use AT&T facilities to complete calls to remote > locations is equally unknown to press and public. When an excavation project severed a fiber optic link here in New Jersey last year, the AT&T customers noticed a huge increase in circuits-busy conditions. The AT&T network managed to complete a few calls, but the blocking probabilty went way up. MCI customers, on the other hand, were unaware of the outage, and experienced normal circuit availability. Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave