[102799] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power outages in Florida
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Feb 27 01:36:26 2008
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:09:32 GMT
To: davediaz.tech@gmail.com
Cc: surfer@mauigateway.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- "David Diaz" <davediaz.tech@gmail.com> wrote:
>Being that Miami is my home town. I found it interesting today that in
>areas affected by the black out services like verizon EVDO lost their
>backbone connections. The towers were up with signal but no one could g=
et
>to the IP gateway. Driving a few miles to a lit area provided
>connectivity. =
>
>This is a concern for those of us with hurricane experience in the area=
.
>
Ya think? ;-)
In fact, there were multitudes of digital cellular outages reported
this afternoon all across central & south Florida.
Not a very comfortable feeling, methinks.
- - ferg
p.s. In fact, I think this morning's outages down in Florida
should shed some light on some serious issue in communications
reliabilities... even CNN couldn't keep a good signal due to power
issues. :-)
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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