[18462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldcom cut?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Fulton)
Wed Jul 22 17:48:54 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:35:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Fulton <fulton@veryo.net>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980722154747.B439@millburn.net>
This is from our Bell Atl rep...
> This afternoon at about 13:45 WorldCom experienced a fiber cut, the
> cause of which is unknown.
>
> The location of the cut has been determined to be between Stanton, DE
> and Broyhill, MD.
>
> WorldCom has sent technicians.
>
> Repairs are estimated to take 3-4 hours.
>
> Approximately 635 DS3s have been effected by this outage.
>
> A variety of IXCs have been effected.
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> Anyone have any information about the extent of this Worldcom phiber cut in PA, est. repair time, etc?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Adam
>
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