[36444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier reliability and diversity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Apr 5 19:07:33 2001
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 19:01:58 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010405190158.A32337@puck.nether.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104051850150.98098-100000@overlord.e-gerbil.net>; from ras@e-gerbil.net on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0400
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0400, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:39:10PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> >
> > The air line reservation system Galileo had significant problems
> > earlier.
> >
> > Excerpt from Reuters:
> > "The outage began about 8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Wednesday
> > and lasted until 10:55 a.m. MDT on Thursday, said Beth Tennis, vice
> > present of enterprise networks for Quantitude, Galileo's Denver-based
> > networking subsidiary. It affected three of the four T-1 high-speed
> > data transmission lines supplied to Galileo by AT&T Corp., said
> > Beth Tennis"
>
> 4 T1's were down in Denver? Stop the world, I want off. :P
>
> You missed the bigger story about the AOL Instant Messanger outtage for a
> large portion of the day (which I heard lots about from all my AIM loving
> friends). Doubtless many thousands of network engineers were cut off from
> their vital lines of communication.
Today was the second multi-hour outage in the past week of AIM
that i'm aware of.
- Jared
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