[Tfug] Changes to Dakotacom's network

[Bowie J. Poag]

> The notice is indeed short, for which I have not been able to apologize
enough.
> Ryan's link is timely and a major factor in this changeover.  Time Earner
> Telecom does indeed buy from Worldcom, just as Worldcom buys from Time
> Warner and AT&T buys from Expedius and Broadwing Buys from Worlcom and
> Qwest buys from Expedius and Time Warner, etc.  Worldcom does not "own"
> Time Warner in any fashion that I am aware of.

Given recent events, I dont think Worldcom knows what it owns either.


>
> As for IPs, yes, some of the IPs we currently utilize belong to Time
> Warner.  Some belong to Sprint as well.  Dakota has no plans of folding,
> selling, going under, being single-homed, etc.  This has been our best
year
> ever and since we've been doing this for many years now, that should
> assuage all fears you might have.

Bugs Bunny is reaming the Roadrunner while HBO films it and CNN reports on
it.

http://www.cjr.org/owners/aoltimewarner.asp



> We are being proactive so as not to be reactive and behind the 8 ball
> if something happens.

Looks like your "plan" failed.


  Besides all this, the changes being made on a rapid
> time frame now were planned for the fall anyway and do not represent an
> overall degredation in service, but rather measured steps towards
greatness. :)

The path to hell is paved with.....eh, nevermind. If you were able to
understand it, you would have already done it.

> We are also going to be upgrading our bandwidth for DSL via Qwest Fiber
(if
> they ever install it, heh) adding a shell server, most likely begin
> supporting at least one distribution of Linux, and continuing a plan of
> physical re-wiring (for aesthetics) and general updates and upgrades of
all
> kinds.

Hooray!! Disruptions-a-plenty! Good lord I cant tell you how happy I am that
I ditched Dakotacom and went broadband with Comcast.. Its precisely this
kind of crap that prompted it -- Having to jump from provider to provider,
leaving each one as it began its spiral journey down the crapper.

> # Tyler Kilian, CleverlyConcealedNincomPoop
> # Technology Director, Dakota Communications
> # TKilian@DakotaCom.NET | 520.745.3900 x 100
>
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