[41143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FIBER CUT: Dallas to West Coast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Aug 30 01:12:05 2001
Date: 29 Aug 2001 22:11:22 -0700
Message-ID: <20010830051122.26407.cpmta@c011.snv.cp.net>
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
X-Sent-From: sean@donelan.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 29 August 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Brian Whalen wrote:
> > Routing around the problem, what a concept. More backup for the 2xt1 shop
> > to contimue doing it..
>
> I'm still awaiting the list of providers that never have a circuit go
> down. :-)
Every carrier has had a circuit go down. The difference is the carrier's
response, in particular how well they keep their customers informed.
On the other hand, there is a significant statistical difference between
major carriers of service affecting cable cuts and the mean time to repair.
Which might be somewhat of a surprise because the physical cuts are more
or less evenly distributed among the carriers, on a pro-rata basis.
Among "major" carriers (i.e. with more than 20,000 route miles active)
Sprint has the fewest service affecting cable cuts
AT&T is the best at keeping customer's informed
