[10975] in North American Network Operators' Group
Worlcom Fiber Cut (Re: Sprint Outages)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E Larson)
Thu Jul 17 20:40:16 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:42:17 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu, inet-access@earth.com
From: Mark E Larson <mlarson@rust.net>
MFS Worldcom Fiber Cut
WorldCom has experienced a fiber cut between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore,
MD which is causing outages across multiple U.S. Backbones, in the Northeast
United States. The fiber cut effected approx 533 DS-3's.
According to Worldcom, it will take six hours to restore all the circuits.
(happened approx 10:30am)
Mark E Larson
Senior Network Architect
RUSTnet Engineering
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