[30121] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: solar storm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Curado)
Sat Jul 15 20:40:41 2000
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:40:27 -0400
From: Dave Curado <davec@weezel.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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We seem to get more ram parity errors on our cisco gear
during solar flare activity. Some believe that the cosmic
rays generated from such events zap the memory.
davec
> I haven't been tracking outages through an entire 11 year sunspot
> cycle yet, it only seems like forever. I've looked for correlations
> of unexplained outages or directly attributable outages with previous
> solar flare warnings, but so far nothing detectable shows up.
>
> There are normal satellite outages twice a year as the sun crosses
> the Clarke belt. I've also noticed a 3,6,9 year technology obsolence
> cycle when old equipment fails before companies replace it.
>
> On Sat, 15 July 2000, smd@clock.org wrote:
> > Forgive this temporary segue into a potential operational issue.
> >
> > http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sunspot000714.html
> >
> > I would find it interesting if any outages observed by Sean Donelan
> > or others could be attributed to this solar storm; alternatively,
> > any higher than average incidence of outages and failures would
> > be interesting from a correlation analysis perspective.
>
>
