RE: AT&T Problems yesterday (and continuing today...)

Boy am I glad we have MCI about now!!!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Feinstein [SMTP:gfeinste@planethollywood.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 11:26 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: AT&T Problems yesterday (and continuing today...)
> 
> Chuck,
>       We have an AT&T Frame Relay WAN.  And yes, we also took a hit
> yesterday.  I probably had over 30 calls between last night and this
> morning with connectivity issues from my remote users.  I'm hoping
> this
> problem gets resolved by AT&T as soon as possible.  The influx of
> support calls is making me nuts!  But then again I wasn't all there to
> begin with.
> Gary Feinstein
> AS/400 System Administrator
> Planet Hollywood International Inc.
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone have any problems with AT&T communication yesterday or today
> ?
> > 
> > We are on a fairly large frame relay network for AS/400 and LAN
> traffic
> > and AT&T took some kind of hit yesterday around 12:15 in the
> afternoon
> > (EST). We have sites across the US and Canada and 99 % were
> affected.
> > IDSN dial backup was even out at the majority of sites (we were told
> > this this - backup - was affevted...) !
> > 
> > MOST of our sites are back up this morning...
> > 
> > The news this morning said that "QT&T had a problem with a
> high-speed
> > segment. It affected many US businesses. ATM machines were hit, but
> were
> > OK now. AT&T said MOST business were OK because they had backup in
> > place"... hmmmm, we had backup in place and for the most part
> it/their
> > backup DIDN'T WORK !!!!
> > 
> > Chuck
> >
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