[20658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: They pulled a BIFF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Boehlke)
Tue Oct 20 12:46:09 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:15:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dan Boehlke <dboehlke@mr.net>
To: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810201127.HAA02594@heimdall.ttsg.com>
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, TTSG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has heard of the following term. I
> received it as a notification of an outtage from a vendor :
>
> At 5:35 CST, October 19, 1998 our AT&T backbone had 23 T-3's cut by a
> contractor. This caused a massive BIFF (Backhoe Induced Fiber Failure).
>
> Tuc/TTSG
If it were okay to combine MCI outage notification TLAs with AT7T TLA, we
could have:
The BIPP had a BIFF.
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