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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jul 16 16:26:44 1997

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 97 12:50 PDT
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

> We have 3 connections into our Palo Alto POP, and Worldcom said they all
> are over different fiber paths. As of right now they all are down.

Path diversity is not something obtained and then safely assumed forever.
It must be monitored with dilligence, and this is far from trivial, even for
L1 geeks.

randy

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