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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: DDS to Texas (from Sunnyvale, California) unreliable?
Message-ID: <591@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 22:48:46 EST
Article-I.D.: amdcad.591
Posted: Sun Jan 27 22:48:46 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Jan-85 05:09:05 EST
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Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA
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We have DDS lines to San Antonio and Austin, Texas, and find that
the lines go down for several seconds several times a day. On
a good day. On bad days, they go down for minutes at a time.
The equipment we use, bisync and Tellabs (modified X.25),
can't handle these outages and people get their sessions dropped,
our big file transfers (done with wonderful RSCS) have to start
over, etc. It's not a great situation.

Is our experience shared by others? Would TCP/IP (the protocol
designed to survive a nuclear blast) be more reliable? I heard
Texas was once the only state which didn't regulate its phone
company, I wonder if that would have anything to do with it.
And if this shows the direction the soon to be completely
unregulated ATT Long Lines (or whatever it's now called) will go?
-- 
 This is my opinion, I guess.

 Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
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