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Re: OUTAGE: train derailment in Atlanta, fiber cut

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Rand)
Fri Sep 11 07:54:11 1998

From: dlr@bungi.com (Dave Rand)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 04:44:18 PDT
In-Reply-To: Sean Donelan's message on Sep 11,  5:47.
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu

[In the message entitled "OUTAGE: train derailment in Atlanta, fiber cut" on Sep 11,  5:47, Sean Donelan writes:]
> Today is off to a great start.
> 
> A train derailed outside of Atlanta cutting several fiber cables
> affecting service in the southeast.

MFS has a total of 613 DS3's down at this time - no ETR.  No word on
how many other carriers are affected.  Outage began at 02:15 PDT,
roughly.

Looks like self-healing SONET, isn't. :-(

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Dave Rand
dlr@bungi.com
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