Data Network Fails and Commerce Takes

Question: Discuss about the Data Network Fails and Commerce Takes. Answer: Introduction ATT is a famous network providing company that works for the provding communication services to the people (Burke, 1995). The scenario of ATT Network Collapse 1990 occurred on 15th January 1990, when the network system engineers of ATT witnessed a high casualty signal of warning for the network communication system across the world. It took a matter of few seconds for covering the entire 72 screens of the video with graphically represented array. The following report would highlight the various aspects of the scenario and point out various inclusions by evaluating the scenario on the basis of some questions. The date of the event had been marked by red symbol in the history of ATT as it had caused the seizure of all the activities of network communication for ATT. The event had occurred in the year of 1990 and the date was 15th of January (Lohr, 1998). The system engineers had seen the issue and problem at around 2.55pm in the afternoon. The network communication was totally halted and it became impossible for establishing communication throughout the network channel. Only blinking of red signal for the warning was shown. The major people involved in the devastative scenario is the ATT Company, their Engineers and the customers of ATT. The customers had to suffer from bad communication network of ATT as it resulted in halting their means of communication with others. The system Engineers at ATT had to deal with the issue of system shut down. They had to scrutinize the completed system for finding out the main reasons behind the system shutdown. The company had to face major fall in reputation and some of the customers had drawback from their services. The technical issues mentioned in the scenario had occurred in the main framework of digital communication services provided by ATT Company. The company had been supplying over 70% of the total nationwide long distance communication traffic (able to manage 700,000 calls within an hour (Latimes.com. 2003). The problem had arisen from New York, when a switch in New York had performed a routine self-test and after realizing that it was close to its limit, went under a reset. The reset caused a delay in prompting the message that lead to overwrite of the messages in communication. It had caused serious issues in the communication lag and had ultimately led to such an issue. The network error had caused delay in overall operations of the network communication. A switch in New York had performed a routine self-test and after realizing that it was close to its limit, went under a reset. It causes a prompt message to another switch notifying the decline of operations while in maintenance. However, after the maintenance, the second message had being overlapped by some important messages. The software included in the network realized the problem and formed a backup link for the reset process. (Lohr, 1998) The problem cause the iteration of the first event in 114 switches all over the network that resulted in decline of 50 million communication calls within the short span of 9 hours. Why or how did it happen? What was the cause? The performance of a routine self-test had caused a prompt message to another switch notifying the decline of operations while in maintenance. The software included in the network realized the problem and formed a backup link for the reset process. The problem cause the iteration of the first event in 114 switches all over the network that ultimately led to the problem. The errors of the operation was not caused by any specific person and it was caused due to some issues in design and software. The bug lined code was included in the design that has resulted in forming the issue. The system developed by ATT had faced such issue due to the flaw in the design principles of the network (Latimes.com. 2003). There had been no possibility for assisting the development of a sincere and confine operations for the network communication. The person responsible for the flaw was held to the ATT Company and their networking team. The issue had not resulted in any proper or declared amount of money. The company had been supplying over 70% of the total nationwide long distance communication traffic for managing 700,000 calls within an hour (Lohr, 1998). The problem cause the iteration in the 114 network switches present all over the network that resulted in decline of 50 million communication calls within the short span of 9 hours. Conclusion It can be concluded from the report that the issue of ATT in 1990 was just caused by a one line bugged code that was included in the software design of the network communication system. The delayed message sent had resulted in forming the error for the establishment of communication. The problem had resulted in decline of 50 million communication calls within the short span of 9 hours. The network communication was totally halted and it became impossible for establishing communication throughout the network channel. The customers had to suffer from bad communication network of ATT as it resulted in halting their means of communication with others. Bibliography Burke, D., 1995. All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 ATT Long Distance Network Collapse. Users.csc.calpoly.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2017, from https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse.html CPSC 310 Information Systems Blog Archive ATT Long Distance Network Collapse. (2017).Cpsc310.umwblogs.org. Retrieved 5 April 2017, from https://cpsc310.umwblogs.org/2009/04/06/att-long-distance-network-collapse/ latimes.com. (2003). What Happened When Nationwide System Crashed. 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