<snip> > there was an incident a few years back where the 1-800 mapping for major > percentage of the POS (point-of-sale) card-swipe terminals in the US was > down for 12 minutes during a mid-day period ... this was treated as a > serious corporate incident between major transaction processor and major > telco operation. > > five-nines availability is something like 5min (total) outage per year > (includes both scheduled and unscheduled). > <un-snip>
I was at the processor at the time. The problem was something in the frame-relay network. I don't know the specifics of the issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
