[20669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: They pulled a BIFF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelly J. Cooper)
Tue Oct 20 16:50:35 1998
From: "Kelly J. Cooper" <kcooper@bbnplanet.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:16:25 +0000
In-Reply-To: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>
"They pulled a BIFF" (Oct 20, 7:27am)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Early 1990's, when I was at Rutgers in NJ, we called it:
"Backhoe-Induced Deep Fade"
Kelly J.
On Oct 20, 7:27am, TTSG wrote:
> Subject: They pulled a BIFF
*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
*
>-- End of excerpt from TTSG
