Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Stamford, CT Outage Message-ID: <8698@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Jun 90 09:12:59 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 34 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 416, Message 9 of 10 "Douglas Scott Reuben" writes: > From their DMS exchanges, they managed to block off ALL calls to the > exchanges in Stamford which were affected. IE, you would dial > 1+977-xxxx or 1+324-xxxx or any Stamford number, and it would be > blocked immediately. Depending on where you were calling from, it > would either give you a recorded message or a re-order. > Is this some new local network feature that SNET and the rest of the > Bells have? Happens all the time here. Whenever the remarkably advanced, super wonderful, all things to all people, greatest thing since sliced bread (but unfortunately discontinued and abandoned by AT&T) GTD-5 switch in Los Gatos crashes (at least once a year) the surrounding Pac*Bell COs are really quick on the uptake. (Probably 'cause they are faced with the problem in Los Gatos so much.) Calls directed to Los Gatos are immediately intercepted by a recording that says, "Due to telephone company difficulty, your call cannot be completed at this time." GTE then usually sends someone up from Thousand Jokes or Santa Monica who is usually able to get things running within a day or two. (Remember, this is the town whose council voted disapproval of GTE as the telco. Silly them, don't they know they have the most advanced CO switching equipment in the world?) Anyway, I feel the wording of the intercept recording is much too charitable. If I were Pac*Bell, the script would be changed somewhat. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess what that might be. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !