[113525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Tue Apr 14 18:47:52 2009
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:42:30 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: Gino Villarini <gav@aeronetpr.com>
In-Reply-To: <AA4A326A317BC640988D04873B64C5E452B6BA@aerosrv.aeronetpr.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Gino Villarini wrote:
> Here in my area most of business outfits that require maximum
> availability of Internet or WAN conenctions have implemented dual
> connections from dual providers, most with a fiber/copper main and a
> fixed wireless backup. This trend goes from banks to Mcdonalds
>
>
> Gino A. Villarini
> gav@aeronetpr.com
> Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp.
> tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145
>
>
A large company in the affected area had a T3 supplied by AT&T and a
wireless link to another ISP that was fed by two metro-ethernet links by
companies other than AT&T.
All three uplinks were lost. So much for having backups,
