[19656] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IXC Fibre cut IL,OH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charley Kline)
Mon Sep 21 10:56:04 1998
From: "Charley Kline" <kline@uiuc.edu>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:39:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980919144508.9875D-100000@null0.qual.net>
> IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s
> cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98.
> All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route
> between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect
> the chicago area primarily.
Possibly the same cut also took out some of Consolidated/McLeod's circuits,
including our OC-3 to the AADS NAP. The McLeod guy I talked to said the cut
was in or near Kankakee, Illinois. We lost our NAP connection at 8:40am CDT
Saturday and it was restored at about 6:15pm CDT.
/cvk
