[11696] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Aug 8 14:30:55 1997
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@sunspot.tiac.net>
To: giza@adsmart.net (Peter Giza)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:22:39 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <33EB621C.768A6D5D@adsmart.net> from "Peter Giza" at Aug 8, 97 02:14:52 pm
> sigh... A goodly section of Cambridge lost power, a utility worker 42
> years old with 6 children died, give it a break. The POPs affected
> were legacy NEARNET (I believe) POPs which are primarily used today
> for 56kbps links modulo the legacy connections with larger pipes.
> These were **not** backbone POPs. Should they have had a better power
> backup solution?, yeah. Did it affect BBNs' backbone?, thank God *no*
> at least I'm thankful for that.
>
> "Year of the Backhoe" and "Blackout Daze" #%^>
Yup. I think the BBN issue was a router colo at MIT. MIT has a
co generation faciliry in Cambridge and it had a large panel
catch fire as a result of the explosion, which as it was
explained to me, caused the co-gen to go black.
Subsequently, MIT's system went dark affecting NEARNet service.
[ Mike - correct me if I'm wrong ]
1 man died, and two others were seriously injured. Almost
half of the P.R. of Cambridge had telephone AND electricity
shutdown due to the explosion. They had no idea *still dont*
as to what caused it.
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