Re: Re[2]: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
I am sorry, their NOC is located in Belgium. Well, there is operational staff all across Europe. If that is enough to keep the network up - I don't know. There are other issue playing in as well on what can be kept up. Notice that the message sent out is that the volunteer NOC will

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
I think this is the article? Employees of KPNQwest's operations centre in Brussels have threatened to shut down the internet network on Friday at 5pm local time if the business does not receive a firm takeover offer. We want a deal signed, sealed and delivered or we will shut down, said

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
What I wonder is what they mean by shutdown. If this means that the equipment is unplugged, then how many of these alternate providers will suddenly discover that they have a dependency on an Ebone SDH/SONET ADM or an Ebone DWDM box? If management at these alternate providers is just

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:37:04 BST, Neil J. McRae said: Michael, I can't imagine a single carrier that doesn't know that HER=GTS=EBONE=KQ. [Certainly by the volume of orders I've seen somebody knows ! :D] You're only seeing orders from the ones who know. The others you'll find out about at

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-13 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2002-06-14 04:08 +0100 Chrisy Luke typed: CL CL ?$BLpEDIt?(B wrote (on Jun 14): CL I heard that NOC of KPQWEST in Frankfurt would cease operation at 1400 CL hour (local time) today. CL CL Is there any additional information about this? CL CL http://live.ebone.com/ is probably about