[113312] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Murphy, Jay, DOH)
Thu Apr 9 18:30:03 2009
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:18:51 -0600
In-Reply-To: <49DE5368.8030803@enger.us>
From: "Murphy, Jay, DOH" <Jay.Murphy@state.nm.us>
To: "Robert M. Enger" <enger@enger.us>,
"Roy" <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
A sobering touch=E9.
Jay Murphy=20
IP Network Specialist=20
NM Department of Health=20
ITSD - IP Network Operations=20
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502=20
Bus. Ph.: 505.827.2851
"We move the information that moves your world."=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert M. Enger [mailto:enger@enger.us]=20
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:59 PM
To: Roy
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area
That AT&T has stopped provisioning protection fiber for automatic=20
restoral is mind boggling.
That our crack (or on crack) govt contracting/emergency-preparedness=20
staff didn't demand protected facilities for 911 is another mind=20
boggling issue.
That there is no over-under wide-area back-up coverage for the cellular=20=
canopy ...
We posture and orate about being prepared for terrorist attacks and=20
natural disasters, and then events like these reveal the reality:
The emperor has no clothes.
Roy wrote:
> Service to South Santa Clara county is completely down: Internet,
> landline, and cellphones. Both Verizon and AT&T are affected. 911 is
> also down.
>
> My cellphones show one or no bars. Normally they are all four bars.
>
> The idea that all of that is lumped in one fiber bundle is mind bogglin=
g.
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Matthew Kaufman <matthew@eeph.com> wro=
te:
> =20
>> I saw my Sonic.net-over-AT&T ADSL go dark at 02:30 local and it is sti=
ll
>> down, served on a fiber remote out of SNCZCA01. (I'm guessing the 200 =
Paul
>> outages are associated with where this ATM terminates and that's the c=
ause,
>> rather than the service in/out of Santa Cruz County, but I have no way=
of
>> telling which from here)
>>
>> My own Gatespeed.net microwave to Equinix SV-3 is working fine (no sur=
prise
>> there), and I'm not seeing significant routing problems in/out of ther=
e with
>> transit or peering. (Not even any down peers, so no inter-Equinix-site=
>> outage apparently).
>>
>> Matthew Kaufman
>> matthew@eeph.com
>>
>>
>> =20
>
> =20
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