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Re: BT monopoly causes widespread network failure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terence)
Fri Nov 23 10:04:55 2001

Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:03:41 +1000 (EST)
From: Terence <terry@tdce.com.au>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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	nanog@merit.edu
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> Yes.  But I'm more interested in how a provider manages to wipe out
> their entire national network.  That takes talent.

Had this Telstra tech in my Spring Hill CO a while back, he was splicing
fibre for a Telstra run into the CO.  Merrily tells me how, just
yesterday, he's splicing foc 150km north of Brisbane, and woops, gets the
main run by accident, isolating 1000's of services...

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