🚀 go-pugleaf

lr@access4.digex.net (Sir Topham Hatt) writes:
> David Fisher (David.Fisher@InternetMCI.com) wrote:
> : 
> : MCI won an contract to run the entire NSFNET backbone and in 1994, 
> : upgraded the network to 45MBPS, back then there were few commertial 
> : providers, MCI didn't even have a commercially released service (product) 
> : announced.
> 
> Speaking of professionalism. You're either intentionally exagerating
> or outright lying.  The contract run the NSFnet backbone was awared
> to MERIT.  MCI was not elligible to even bid by themselves.  MCI
> and IBM partnered with the Michigan folk.  The major factor in
> the award by the way was price.  The top three finishers in that
> RFP were about equivelent tecnhically (actually, the NYSER (SPRINT/
> CISCO) bid was probably the technically finest but came at a cost
> of 3 times the Merit bid).
> 
> I know, I was one of the panelists that awarded that contract.
> MCI wasn't perse awarded the upgrade contracts except that Merit
> continued to buy the long haul lines from them.  Of course then
> AN(u)S came by and ripped off the infrastructure.
> 
> It's nice revisionist history to give MCI 100% credit for all this.
> 
> However, Mr. Fisher, despite the fact that this is the USENET, you
> should learn that flaming the customers will not improve their
> (or other potential customers) impressions of your customer
> service.  Perhaps, you should let Ms. Aun handle this as she
> has handled some of the other Internet tongue lashings that
> MCI has recieved recently.
>  
> 
> -Ron
Sorry to break in, but it reminds me of when we went looking
for a frame relay provider.  The guests were Sprint, AT$T, MCI,
and SITA (internatinal provider).  The best thing MCI provided
was some meat to look at (sorry for the slur) and not much in
content.  AT$T kept rewinding the marketing sales tape.  SITA,
handicapped by pricing schedules. That left our current X.25 provider 
Sprint which put in writing what we wanted to see.  Due to lack
of 24x7 network/router peeps, they are also doing all the Cisco
router configs and maintainence, and have been very responsive
to requested changes (less then 24 hrs, and most oftem 4 hours)
I have to admit that I am a fan of Sprint as the BEST data services
provider today.