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Re: Sprint Outages

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric D. Madison)
Fri Jul 18 16:36:25 1997

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Eric D. Madison" <madison@acsi.net>
To: Robert Bowman <rob@elite.exodus.net>
cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707171943.MAA22705@elite.exodus.net>

Just an amusing note.. seems that the Wcom/Sprint fiber cut yesterday was
along the railroad about 1/2 a mile from the office here in MD.  I saw the
trucks fixing the fiber last night.  Seemed to be like the State Road
crews.. lots of guys standing around and one guy working.

Eric


_______________________________________________________
      Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer -   
 ACSI - Advanced Data Services - ATM/IP Backbone Group  
   24 Hour NMC/NOC (800)291-7889 Email: noc@acsi.net


On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Robert Bowman wrote:

> All of the fiber cuts Sprint, WorldCom, Cable and Wireless and a few
> other IXC vendors is just outside of Baltimore, MD.  Varying degrees
> of damage.
> 
> Rob
> > 
> > 
> > The last few days have been hard, after the big Worldcom fiber cut
> > yesterday I thought life would get back to normal. Today Worldcom had
> > fiber cut in New York, and now this Sprint cut. If you add that with
> > the MAE-West outages it has not been a good week. 
> > 
> > 
> > Nathan Stratton                                President, NetRail,Inc.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Phone   (888)NetRail                           NetRail, Inc.
> > Fax     (404)522-1939                          230 Peachtree Suite 500
> > WWW     http://www.netrail.net/                Atlanta, GA 30303
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his
> > great strength.                                        - Psalm 33:16
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Eric D. Madison wrote:
> > 
> > > Well.. seems Sprint is the fiber cut of the day.. over 250 DS-3's down in
> > > the DC area.. 
> > > 
> > > Is it just me, or is the sky falling?
> > > 
> > > Eric
> > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________________
> > >       Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer -   
> > >  ACSI - Advanced Data Services - ATM/IP Backbone Group  
> > >    24 Hour NMC/NOC (800)291-7889 Email: noc@acsi.net
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 


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