[196322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Wed Oct 18 15:38:02 2017
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To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:11:41 -0700
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On 10/17/2017 10:05 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for sharing the story in what must be quite a difficult time.
>
> You mention that Level3 also has presence in the county, including
> their own independent route. Did they also suffer an outage during
> this latest incident? If not, then why did their connection not allow
> at least some customers to remain online?
>
> Also, as another poster pointed out, would also be interesting to know
> why the microwave link was not already established prior to this
> incident if the single point of failure was so well known.
> (Especially if your contract with AT&T already mentions that you are
> supposedly allowed to have microwave at their CO.)
>
> Cheers,
> Constantine.
We have attempted to engage exactly that for years - installing a
microwave backup - but the only place it can be done, the top of the ATT
central office where we are located - is resisted steadfastly by ATT
despite it being a right enshrined in our contract, and there are no
other realistic options that are also within our financial means to
accomplish at this time.
Mike-
