[25335] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Heller)
Tue Oct 5 16:33:43 1999
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 16:41:03 -0400
To: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael Heller <mikeh@earthweb.com>
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Has anyone come to the conclusion that there might be a market for
titanium-reinforced innerduct?
Add up the yearly costs of outages for the average provider and the high
costs of indestructable conduit make more sense.
At 02:02 PM 10/5/99 -0400, Scott Drassinower wrote:
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>MCI WorldCom claims that they have located a fiber cut in or near
>Syracuse, NY (300+ miles northwest of NYC and White Plains) that is
>the cause of the outage. They say crews have been dispatched.
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>We had several MCI WorldCom circuits go out of service at about 12:40 EDT.
>Some of the circuits are totally within WorldCom's fiber network, some
>have endpoints on Bell Atlantic's network. All are in the NYC area.
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>Unconfirmed by WorldCom, but apparently this cut has taken out two OC-48s.
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>It's very interesting (and seemingly absurd) that to go 25 miles south, we
>first must go 300 miles in the totally opposite direction.
>
>--
> Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net
> Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
> +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net
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Michael Heller
Sr. Systems Engineer
Earthweb, Inc.
212.448.4175
mikeh@earthweb.com
