[23684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Major fiber cut in Tyson's Corner area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Apr 13 17:55:00 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:52:03 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.EDU
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
ferguson@cisco.COM (Paul Ferguson) writes:
>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.
>
>For those who may not know, MAE-East is in the Tysons Corner vicinity.
Things that make you go Hmmm!
Yesterday I received a very strange phone call from a person claiming
to be with MCI/Worldcom wanting to talk to me about verifying Y2K readiness
of our equipment at MAE-East. He wanted to verify the address, and wanted
to send a tech over to check serial numbers of equipment.
Our MCI/Worldcom sales rep says he knows nothing about MCI/Worldcom doing
this, nor why MCI/Worldcom wouldn't already know the address of their own
building. I wonder if he just was fishing, to find out where to send
the backhoe :-)
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
