[25398] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fiber won't work without electricity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Drassinower)
Sat Oct 9 15:52:47 1999
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 15:51:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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At 1pm, MCI WorldCom had all MFS service restored that was in or passed
through White Plains. It turns out it wasn't a fiber cut.
The building they are located in (One North Broadway, which in addition to
being a regular office tower includes POPs for pre-WorldCom MCI, MFS,
and seemingly Nextel) was having electrical work performed by the building
management. They had to shut down the entire building's power to get this
work done. I stopped by at 12pm, and the building's security guards said
management notified tenants last month they they would have no electricity
on 10/9.
At 7 or 8am the power went off, and the MFS batteries failed at 9am. It
took four hours to get power back on. I guess they thought it was a fiber
cut since the whole area simply went dark. At around 11am, they
determined there was no electricity, and that the fiber was probably
unhurt.
Our C&W Internet service, which passes through the pre-WorldCom MCI POP in
the same building, was unaffected. So either that facility has better
batteries, or they did something to make sure that things would keep
running today.
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Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net
Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
+1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net
