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Re: Banc of America Article
From: alex () yuriev com
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:47:40 -0500 (EST)
< knowing absolutely nothing about how BoA ATM's work > It could be that BoA's network wasn't flooded / servers infected, but that the ATM's do not dial BoA directly, and dial somewhere else (ie, maybe some kind of ATM Dial Provider, nationwide wholesale, etc), and then tunnel back to BoA to get the data. Could be that the upstream of either the dial provider, or BoA was just flooded...
Again, that design makes nearly no sense. The vast majority of the ATMs that banks own and operate directly are located in the LATAs with bank branches. Those branches do have good connectivity to the bank processing centers be that via dedicated links, VPN or carrier pigeons. ATMs do have at a POTS because that is the way alarm companies monitor them. The sane design is to aggregate ATMs in zones via large branches and use branch connectivity to the processing center to provide the link. The other designs are not only more expensive but also less reliable (as we have seen here). Alex
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- Re: Banc of America Article, (continued)
- Re: Banc of America Article Jack Bates (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Sean Donelan (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Banc of America Article Avleen Vig (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Ryan Fox (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article E.B. Dreger (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Dave Howe (Jan 26)
- Re: Banc of America Article Ryan Fox (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Wayne E. Bouchard (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Banc of America Article Charles Sprickman (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Leo Bicknell (Jan 28)
- RE: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article E.B. Dreger (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article Daniel Senie (Jan 29)
- OT: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- OT: Banc of America Article Al Rowland (Jan 29)
- RE: Banc of America Article Charles Sprickman (Jan 29)