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Re: Seattle Sprint outage - update?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Stewart)
Fri Mar 27 19:47:12 1998

From: "Jay Stewart" <cosmo@olywa.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:34:44 +0000
Reply-to: cosmo@olywa.net
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <13596.10092.531694.636232@rip.psg.com>

> > Any one from Sprint care to enlighten us on the major fiber cut in 
> > Seattle?
> 
> Isn't it a damned shame that a company the size of Sprint does not have a
> NOC.  <sigh>
> 
> randy

Sorry this wasn't about routing configs or peering randy, but the
NOC (Sprint's ISC) couldn't really answer this non-emergency
question, and the (ahem) customer service people at SMC had only a
recording referring to a vague "network event" in Seattle, not actual 
information about what was causing the outage.

Jay Stewart
Vice President
Olympia Networking Services - "Premier Internet Access"
Phone (360) 753.3636  Fax (360) 357.6160  http://www.olywa.net/

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