[32944] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Qwest yesterday?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis Pugh)
Tue Dec 19 12:34:05 2000
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:31:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Travis Pugh <tpugh@shore.net>
To: Ralph Forsythe <ralph@centerone.com>
Cc: Andy Lewis <alewis@kore.com>, <nanog-digest@merit.edu>
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May be unrelated, but our latency on an OC3C from NYC to London doubled
yesterday, then went back to normal today ... seems like they must have
re-routed the circut to a much longer path than it takes normally.
-travis
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Ralph Forsythe wrote:
>
> Their usual excuse is a fiber cut somewhere, but they didn't even give me
> that this time! The thing is, my CSU was green so I know the physical
> circuit integrity was there. I'd think it was a bad route, but it didn't
> seem to propogate far enough to be that (my Qwest DSL worked fine, and
> other parts of their network were ok), so I'm leaning towards catastrophic
> router failure, though I can't imagine why it wouldn't have gone to
> backup. Surely Qwest has redundancy... ???
>
> - Ralph Forsythe
> ralph@centerone.com
>
> At 09:06 AM 12/19/00 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >It has been my experience that the last mile in the mile high city is the
> >worst last mile ever. Qwest and USWest have had multiple outages for our
> >T1 in Denver, but we never are given a very good RFO. (reason for
> >outage) the best we have been told is that on separate instances we lost
> >a load coil, redundant sonnet rings for the city, a repeater and a bad CSU
> >chassis. Our ISP is concentric, but I think the physical lines in Denver
> >are the problem. Good luck!
> >
> >Ciao!
> >
> >Andrew Lewis
> >KORE
> >Newport Beach, California
> >www.kore.com
>
>
>
