[19419] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OUTAGE: train derailment in Atlanta, fiber cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Sep 11 09:27:39 1998
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: dlr@bungi.com (Dave Rand)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:16:15 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0zHRcj-00004UC@daver.bungi.com> from "Dave Rand" at Sep 11, 98 04:44:18 am
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Dave Rand said:
>
> 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. :-(
Self-healing refers to the salesmen's egos, not your connectivity...
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