[23681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major fiber cut in Tyson's Corner area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Apr 13 17:26:40 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:24:55 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990413171955.00806530@lint.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Oh. The one thing I forgot to mention is that the
local news reported it as a "major local telephone outage".
- paul
At 05:19 PM 4/13/99 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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>For what it's worth:
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>I just heard on the local news that 3 fiber optic cables, as well as
>one large copper bundle was cut in the Tyson's Corner area (Northern
>Virginia). No idea what impact it may have on net traffic, although one
>fiber strand was reported as belonging to MCI.
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>For those who may not know, MAE-East is in the Tysons Corner vicinity.
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>- paul
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