[19418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OUTAGE: train derailment in Atlanta, fiber cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mwinter@exodus.net)
Fri Sep 11 08:38:44 1998
From: mwinter@exodus.net
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 05:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dave Rand <dlr@bungi.com>
cc: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0zHRcj-00004UC@daver.bungi.com>
Worldcom told me more than 800 DS3 are affected on their part. It's a
train derailment between Buckhead (?), Georgia and Social Circle, Georgia.
other carriers are affected too.
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Dave Rand wrote:
> [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. :-(
Just wait for the self-healing teams to finish their work :-)))
- Martin Winter
Exodus Communications
