[19567] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuperTaz)
Thu Sep 17 01:54:16 1998
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:55:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: SuperTaz <supertaz@mindspring.net>
To: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin@mercury.balink.com>
cc: "'shields@crosslink.net'" <shields@crosslink.net>,
"'steve@altrina.exodus.net'" <steve@altrina.exodus.net>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=BAIS%l=MERCURY-980917053931Z-10037@mercury.balink.com>
yeah, they've had a few problems lately with squirrels burrowing under
tracks, and chewing on fibre. The need to just lay out little bowls of
Ex-Lax cookies for the animals, so they can stop moving trees for splices.
And today I was whining about the concept of rings, too...I don't think
they do...they were saying they couldn't re-route today because they only
had 25 spare ds3's of bandwidth, and they used them, and that was it.
anyway, here's to redundant glass *swig*
-Taz
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Martin, Christian wrote:
> Is it me, or has nearly every cut in the past 6 months been Worldcom
> glass? Do they have any redundant rings? Looks like their growth has
> been too agressive for sound SONET engineering efforts to be employed.
> But, hey, they have a lot of glass...
>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: SuperTaz [mailto:supertaz@mindspring.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 1:41 AM
> > To: Martin, Christian
> > Cc: 'shields@crosslink.net'; 'steve@altrina.exodus.net';
> > 'nanog@merit.edu'
> > Subject: RE: hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina
> >
> >
> > I believe it was repaired around 2230...it was 10 Worldcom
> > OC-12's/423
> > DS3's nice little cut.
> >
> > -Taz
> > On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Martin, Christian wrote:
> >
> > > As far as I have heard from MFS, the cut is on a ring
> > between Bolling
> > > Green and Fredericksburg. I also understand that it has
> > been repaired.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: shields@crosslink.net [mailto:shields@crosslink.net]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 1:15 AM
> > > > To: SuperTaz
> > > > Cc: steve@altrina.exodus.net; nanog@merit.edu
> > > > Subject: Re: hearing word of a fiber cut in virgina
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917005255.2077E-100000@localhost>,
> > > > SuperTaz <supertaz@mindspring.net> wrote:
> > > > > I believe it was Bolling Green ;P~
> > > >
> > > > No.
> > > >
> > > > > -Taz
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 steve@altrina.exodus.net wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Seems to be a MFS fiber cut in Bowling Green, Virgina.
> > > > This is all
> > > > > > the information I have at this time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Steven O. Noble -- Sr. Backbone Engineer, Exodus
> > > > Communications (EXDS)
> > > > > > -- Work:408.346.2333 --
> > > > > > All my love to the Canadian Mooing Frog.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Shields, CrossLink.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
