[29601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Illuminet ss7 cable cut (was Re: New York City: ATT Local Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Thu Jun 29 02:45:10 2000
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 02:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, John Fraizer wrote:
> You would think that ANY outage of this size would require an outage
> report, no matter what the duration.
I imagine that if Illuminet customers actually provided any local service
(residential or business), this would cause a bit of a stink. If someone
couldn't make a life or death 911 call, even more so. ATTLS at least (the
one customer of Illuminet I'm aware of) sells very heavy to the dialup
market. The one customer I knew of that didn't fit the recip-comp
paradigm is NYU. I only know this because there used to be a piece of
paper hanging in the switch tech's office that reminded them they must
page some telecom manager there whenever there was a service disruption.
So even though this left thousands of dialup ports dead for at least 6
hours and left many dialup customers furious, I doubt that much will be
made of it outside nanog.
Nice loophole they have in reporting though.
Charles
> Oh well. I guess Illuminet
> stockholders can expect to see a loss... That is unless the CLECs and IXCs
> who use them for interconnect were stupid enough not to require SLAs or
> stupid enough not to enforce them. Then again, most dialup users, let
> alone local/ld dialtone carriers have enforceable SLAs so, the CLECs and
> IXCs probably have a battle ahead of them to get any compensation out of
> the mess.
>
> ---
> John Fraizer
> EnterZone, Inc
>
>
> On 28 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> >
> > The problem is with a Bell Atlantic cable cut affecting Illuminet. Illuminet
> > is a SS7 network provider which interconnects many different IXCs and CLECs
> > with the local ILEC. The cable is along Route 30 in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
> >
> > This is not the first time a cable cut has taken out the SS7 signaling
> > in the Illuminet network. But due to the quirks in the FCC reporting
> > regulations, Illuminet hasn't reported any outage. Previously Illuminet
> > has a cable cuts in Illinois on February 26, 1998 and October 1997 which
> > disrupted many CLECs and IXCs. Instead of installing their own dedicated
> > circuits to every SS7 STP, they use Illuminet as a shared network. This
> > means a problem with a relatively unknown network has very widespread affect.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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