Sky's the Limit for Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Technologies
"Any traveler with a laptop computer or portable device equipped with a Wi-Fi compliant NIC card or enabled with Wi-Fi embedded inside will be able to log onto the wireless network. As part of the service, Lufthansa will also operate a 10 Mbps Ethernet wired network onboard for those passengers without wireless-capable computers. With 380 seats, a typical Lufthansa 747 has as many network connection sites as a mid-sized company. "
What kind of planning went into the "upgrade" of the Lucent software? Was there no back-out plan? No testing? No contingency planning? Someone at Lucent ought to be taking quite a beating right about now.... Lucent owes an explanation of this one, and they've been mighty quiet. Head-in-sand syndrome...
The real losers here are all the small ISP's who rely (possibly unknowingly) on the MCI backbone since it's wholesaled to them by other companies. 8 days of downtime will put some of these guys out of business. They don't have the cash flow to refund all their customers for lost service.
The wholesalers owe it to their ISP customers to have a secondary feed (hopefully using non-MCI, non-Lucent equipment) to prevent such a disaster as this.
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Sky's the Limit for Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Technologies "Any traveler with a laptop computer or portable device equipped with a Wi-Fi compliant NIC card or enabled with Wi-Fi embedded inside will be able to log onto the wireless network. As part of the service, Lufthansa will also operate a 10 Mbps Ethernet wired network onboard for those passengers without wireless-capable computers. With 380 seats, a typical Lufthansa 747 has as many network connection sites as a mid-sized company. "
What kind of planning went into the "upgrade" of the Lucent software? Was there no back-out plan? No testing? No contingency planning? Someone at Lucent ought to be taking quite a beating right about now.... Lucent owes an explanation of this one, and they've been mighty quiet. Head-in-sand syndrome...
The real losers here are all the small ISP's who rely (possibly unknowingly) on the MCI backbone since it's wholesaled to them by other companies. 8 days of downtime will put some of these guys out of business. They don't have the cash flow to refund all their customers for lost service.
The wholesalers owe it to their ISP customers to have a secondary feed (hopefully using non-MCI, non-Lucent equipment) to prevent such a disaster as this.