[19702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IXC Fibre cut IL,OH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Sep 22 14:29:04 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:04:46 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <000301bde56d$9ecbe340$c243ae80@sunkiller.isdn.uiuc.edu>; from Charley Kline <kline@uiuc.edu> on Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:39:21AM -0500
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:39:21AM -0500, Charley Kline wrote:
> > 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.
I guess the train pulled out...
Cheers,
-- jr "Rolled along through houses, farmes, and fields..." a
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