[27962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SBC/Ameritech outage, Milwaukee WI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nicholas harteau)
Sun Apr 2 22:11:23 2000
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:09:07 -0500
From: nicholas harteau <nrh@ikami.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Power was restored around 8:15CDT, Ameritech came back up in full around
9:00PM.
nicholas harteau wrote:
>
> Ameritech's facilities in 324 E. Wisconsin in Milwaukee are currently
> unpowered (324 is a telco hotel in downtown Milwaukee). Ameritech was
> notified over a month ago about the power company was going to shut off
> power in order to repair the service entrance.
>
> Apparently Ameritech didn't see fit to show up, or they miscalculated
> the runtime on thier batteries by a few hours. I'm guessing the former.
>
> There were even a few calls made to lower-level Ameritech engineers this
> morning who claimed they had heard nothing from management about the
> outage.
>
> Anyway, the mux in the basement is dead. It's a localized outage.
> Power company is giving us an ETA of 8PM CDT (is it CDT now? I lost
> track), so stuff should be back up then.
>
> In the meantime, I've got a couple dozen T1 customers down. Glad I
> don't use them for anything longhaul. I'd imagine that some less
> fortunate people in Milwaukee are suffering outages due to thier
> Ameritech-supplied local loops being dead.
>
> For those of you that remember, this repair is related to the outage
> last winter where water leaked through the sidewalk from the snow above
> and shorted the main bus bar.
--
nicholas harteau
nrh@ikami.com
