[Outages-discussion] [outages] [META] Some outages are planned

[Charles Sprickman]

Oh my god, thank you so much for this.

I’ve been chatting with some ex-telco folks recently about how modern telco/internet engineering is not quite what it used to be, and this is simply an amazing illustration of that. I cannot imagine the amount of knowledge and planning involved in doing something like this. I cannot imagine any business caring enough to put that much effort into minimizing downtime…

C

> On Sep 8, 2020, at 1:22 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> We're prone, in the networking and IT world, to use the term "cutover" to
> describe what happens when we replace an old system with a new one.  But even
> if you know where the term comes from... I'll bet you've never actually *seen*
> one:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
> 
> [ reply comments to -discuss ]
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jr '<admin/>' a
> 
> [* AT&T splash cuts Glendale stepper CO to 5ESS in 1984 ]
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