What happened in Allied Telesis vs. IP Triple?
With as much bad publicity as it got when the entire Allied Telesis Yokota base phone system went down for an extended period of time (more than a day), Allied Telesis quickly moved to correct the problem and to get it out there publicly that the loss of service was through no fault of their own. Allied Telesis even went so far as to file a lawsuit against the then servicing company IP Triple Communications for what essentially was a breach of contract and the accusation that IP Triple Communications made false statements to shift blame for the outage. Allied Telesis for a period of time even prominently displayed a copy of the pleading on their website for all to see as proof of their taking the situation seriously.
It has been nearly a year now since the filing hit the streets and little has been said about it. Allied has removed all evidence of the filing from their website and little is remembered as what was a serious loss of service to all.
After a bit of research we have discovered that Allied Telesis and IP Triple have been in court as recently as the last 30 days and a final decision looms on the horizon to either validate Allied Telesis’s assertions that loss of services was through no fault of their own and was not an issue they were aware of or to expose the new truth of the matter, one of which many of us would be interested in knowing considering everyone from Allied Telesis to AAFES denied any prior knowledge of the potential outage. What ever the outcome, it will be truly enlightening to say the least.
*To read the pleading submitted by Allied Telesis, click on the first page below.
In the Know
The CEO hired a guy called Ash to run a shell finance company – ATCC to lease equipemnt to service provider business.
Yokota was/is the test case.
He stripped and burnt thro his best people in the USA to get something working, many of them eventually left the company as a result.
I would guess that ATCC continued(s) to be a financial drain on the US division which I think is bankrupt.
He hired some other “front” guys to run ATCC and try and patch up the disaster.
Today I suspect he is losing millions but is to stubborn to admit his folly.
Good luck Yokota people – you are the “experiment” of the CEO of Allied Telesis.