RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

[Golan Ben-Oni <bnite () tremere ios com>]

Speaking of Worldcom, we just lost a handful of other circuits just now,
As of 8:51 Eastern, including two T3s, and some T1s in the NYC area.
WorldCom claims they have over 100 DS3s involved in this outage.

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Todd Wilkens wrote:

> When Worldcom does change the DLR, you get an automated fax notification
> that states they are performing "maintenance" or a "groom" on your ckt. 
> This means there is a high probablity they are changing the design of your
> ckt and your diversity may not exist after the groom.  You should probably
> respond to the fax and find out exactly what they are doing.
>
> You can also have your sales rep mark you order in the Wcom database as
> "diversely routed".  You also need to specify the ckt you want to be
> diversely routed from.  This should stop you ckt from being added to any
> groom packages that are being put together.  If your ckt is not marked
> diverse, grooms can occur frequently.
>
> > ----------
> > From:        randy () psg com[SMTP:randy () psg com]
> > Sent:        Wednesday, July 16, 1997 5:13 PM
> > To:  Nathan Stratton
> > Cc:  nanog () merit edu
> > Subject:     Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
> >
> > > Worldcom changed the DLRs without letting us know
> >
> > happens all the time.  they do that like we move customers between router
> > ports.
> >
> > if you want to maintain path diversity, you have to continually monitor it
> > with your carriers.  and then you'll need to go out and physically every
> > once in a while.  yes, this is major major pain.
> >
> > randy

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