[113530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Rall)
Tue Apr 14 21:28:24 2009
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:26:10 -0700
From: Tony Rall <trall444@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <49E514F0.7000009@gmail.com>
Cc: brett@surfnetc.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Roy wrote:
> JC Dill wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure the WISPs in the Santa Cruz and Gilroy/Morgan Hill
>> areas were all also taken offline due to the fiber cut. (Roy, can you
>> verify, for south county?) Anyone in those areas who relied on a WISP
>> as a backup to their fiber/copper link found that their "redundant"
>> system wasn't really redundant after all.
>>
> It based on where the WISP fiber feed was located but in general they
> were all down. There were some special edge cases that stayed up fed
> from distant mountain tops.
>
> It didn't seem to matter who your upstream ISP was, they were all gone.
>
The little residential wireless provider I use (http://surfnetc.com/) in
Santa Cruz county stayed up the whole time. I was surprised. (Looks
like their uplink is via pnap (Internap).)
--
Tony Rall
