[42610] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Sep 18 13:19:00 2001
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:54:38 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu, "Smith, Rick" <rsmith@atsworld.com>,
wgray@wwns.net
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 12:22 PM 9/18/2001 -0400, Smith, Rick wrote:
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>Dsl.net was up all night, down again this morning.
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>Blah. Their idea of redundant links must have been 1 fiber into Tower 1 and
>another into Tower 2. They'll never BOTH go away, Right?
Not to say anything about Qwest, but honestly, I would have thought fiber
into each tower *WAS* "redundant" (assuming separate fiber paths into each
building so one backhoe cannot hit both).
Until last week anyway.....
This really is way outside most people's "disaster recovery" scenarios. I
can see the thinking now: "If both WTC towers fall over, we have much
bigger things to worry about than fiber cuts." And they were right.
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TTFN,
patrick
