[70668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Spring time fiber cuts (was Re: fiber cut 19 May/PM -> 20 May/AM)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri May 21 00:35:08 2004
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 00:33:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40AD7EB6.7090004@beanfield.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Dan Armstrong wrote:
> Forgive me, but
>
> Isn't Sonet usually deployed in a ring? Why the heck would a fiber this
> important not be?
You are making assumptions.
Large Part of Southern Utah Without 911 Service
May 20 2004
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=95368
Verizon phone service, 911 interrupted
May 20 2004
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/8711763.htm
Phone Outage Could Limit 911 Access
May 19 2004
http://www.nbc4.com/news/3324749/detail.html
Stuff happens, stuff has always happened, stuff will continue to happen.
9-1-1 is much more complex than a normal dialed telephone call, is it any
surpise it has problems every once in a while. Its always a good idea to
keep the normal 7 or 10 digit phone number for your local emergency
services some place. You don't get the benefit of automatic location; but
direct dialing has the advantage of working over any working connection to
the PSTN including wireline, cellular, voip, satellite, ham radio patch,
etc.
