Hello Matthias;
Matthias Hertzog wrote to Brian Rogers <=-
I had one of the first installations here in switzerland, the telecom
guys even came to see my fidonet installation running over ISDN back
then.
Nice!
ISDN was turned off in switzerland 2-3 years ago.
We turned off ISDN at the turn of the century here. In fact, when I was
Head of M.I.S. at a large paper factory our ISP gave me a better offer than
I had at the shop to join their team so I jumped ship. They had a 2 part project cooking:
1 - migrate ALL ISDN folks to IDSL
2 - configure SDSL/VDSL for new customers.
Phase 1 was so easy we aced it in half the projected amount of time we were given. Phase 2 was trickier. Slower speed SDSL worked fine but anything over 512K speed failed. Their engineers screwed up big! After I was given the chance to review their configuration in depth I determined that they were trying to let these little bridge/modem devices handle the rate-shaping of the customer's speed... not so! They had us configuring circuits so that we were trying to push 100 liters (for non-US folk) of water/min through a hose that could only handle 10 liters of water/min. Needless to say these little bridge/modem devices were nicely in their electronic finger gestures telling us our enginnering brainpower was #1 <G>. I told them we needed to rate-shape
these higher speed circuits at our edge and feed them only what they needed!
I ran a couple tests with employee circuits and then had a customer who was down allow me to test my theory with their circuit. Worked PERFECTLY!
What engineers were doing were shoving a 100Mbs data stream into a device
that could only handle 1.5Mbs. Modems don't like that. Long term I saved
the company millions of dollars in commercial business that they could have
and were about to lose. My reward? Termination for speaking up against a
gay supervisor who was a bit too flirty for my liking and I don't play ball
on his team.
... Sometimes too much to drink isn't enough.
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