[24574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Canada Fiber Cut?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer Khosla)
Fri Jul 16 19:43:18 1999
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sameer Khosla <skhosla@atmcanada.com>
To: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
Cc: linneweh@concentric.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199907162016.QAA07512@Iodine.Mlink.NET>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I had customers from St. Catherines all the way to well out past oshawa
affected. A lot of voice connections outside the downtown core were
hit-and-miss, wherby after trying about 10 or so times, I could make the
call. For the most part, things seemed to stable out at about 16:00 EDT.
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Phillip Vandry wrote:
>
> > Toronto explosion and fire disrupt communications
> > across Canada
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Are you sure? Anyone notice anything down outside of the territory of
> Simcoe CO (the one that exploded)? I don't see why there would have
> been.. All our Toronto customers stayed up except those connected to
> that CO.
>
> BTW, it looks like at least some stuff is back up now, I can now call
> phones connected to Simcoe.
>
> -Phil
>
