Net backbone outage fixed, for now

CNet News ^ | October 7, 2005 | John Borland

[MikefromOhio]

the hell...

we used MCI and their DISN NOC for 99% of our stuff and THEN they made us use Level3.

I HATE Level3 with a passion, at least their idiot techs. They wouldn't even test whereas MCI would test with us head to head.

[MikefromOhio]

the irony there is that i have worked with DISA in a similar capacity before, and it almost always WAS DITCO/DISA's fault, or their failure to select anyone other than Verizon as a local carrier.

Everyone ALWAYS blamed DISA. Even this one time where a a drunk took out a substation which powered a LEC which carried a few big circuits we ran on the NIPR. But it was DISA'S fault this one guy kept screaming from Battlecreek, MI. I swear talking to that moron was hilarious....

[DMinus]

"I HATE Level3 with a passion, at least their idiot techs. They wouldn't even test whereas MCI would test with us head to head."

ahh, so you have a dog in the fight. fair enough. i never had anything but good experiences with them.

regardless of them, however, look for this happening a lot more. the situation has become untenable for many carriers; even the big dogs. and cogent, wiltel, and others are bottom feeders driving the industry into the ground, even after the telecom crash. the big carriers saw the ballsy move level 3 made, and won't forget it soon. cogent is almost guaranteed to negotiate at this point, with a non-disclosure so they don't lose face. AT&T, sprint, UUNET, and others will get in on it next, because they are victims of cogent's BS every bit as much as L3. AOL did it to cogent awhile back too, and cogent's press releases and silly rhetoric were exactly the same this time around; pretending they had no idea and that they were a "Tier 1 network" (and when you have to say that in the first sentence of every release, its a clue that its not accurate or no one believes you). but in the end they realized they were in the wrong, so they shut their mouths and made the smart business play: they came groveling back to the internet.

but if i were drudge, photobucket, and the numerous porn sites that count on cheap cogent prices, i would be looking elsewhere right now.

[MissouriConservative]

Considering that the UN wants us to give up control of the Internet, this kind of stunt just gives them more ammo.

People need to start thinking instead of reacting like children.