Re: Bandcon

2009-07-08 Thread Jason Dearborn
  Their support sucks really really bad. I had a level 3 outtage and
 it took 10 calls to finally get them to do something. Things might
 have improved by now, but no promises. If you are getting a large
 amount of bandwidth ask for direct access to the carriers noc. That
 how we do it.

They may have also been getting the runaround from Level3.  I had a
hard down issue about a year ago when a L3 tech unpatched a mislabeled
cable in the MMR.  It took getting my local sales rep and his boss
involved to have someone drive back out and fix it.

To get back to the point, there's no excuse for Bandcon or any
reseller not to return calls promptly and provide regular status
updates -- even if their upstream support is unresponsive.  Network
Innovations, another reseller, has fantastic customer support.



Re: Make that NTT America (was Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-15 Thread Jason Dearborn
Twitter doesn't run their own core or edge.  It's all in the NTT cloud.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Erik Fichtneremf1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Brandon Galbraith wrote:

 http://status.twitter.com/post/124145031/maintenance-window-tonight-9-45p-pacific

 You sure it's their network, and not Twitter's core/edge?

 They're blaming it on their upstream.






Re: Network diagram software

2009-02-11 Thread Jason Dearborn
I use the free basic version of http://www.gliffy.com for mock-ups.
It doesn't go as deep as OmniGraffle or Visio, but it's enough to
illustrate concepts to NOC guys or executives.