[36449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier reliability and diversity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Starta)
Thu Apr 5 21:20:42 2001
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:15:36 -0700
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From: John Starta <john@starta.org>
Cc: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
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The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional power
failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or their
providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect AOL would
have back-up power.
http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html
jas
At 07:01 PM 4/5/01 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>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
