[70699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Qwest Utah fiber cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Meyer)
Fri May 21 15:26:03 2004
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:25:21 -0700
From: David Meyer <dmm@1-4-5.net>
To: sgorman1@gmu.edu
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9f8e5c9f521f.9f521f9f8e5c@gmu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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>> I was hoping someone might be able to shed some light on the Utah cut.
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>> The news report said that the cut happened near Monroe Utah, which is several miles off of I 70. Yet the cities that were reported effected included St. George, Cedar City, and Salt Lake, which all are adjacent to I 15.
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>> The puzzling part is that in our "best effort" database Qwest does not have long haul fiber running down I 70, but it does have a lot of fiber running down I 15. There is Qwest fiber on I 15, all the cities affected are on I 15 yet the reported cut was near Monroe off of I 70.
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>> I'm not familiar with Utah geogrpahy and this comes simply from looking at our maps. Just trying to sort out the seeming discrepency. Any insight?
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BTW, does anyone know if this is what took out SkyWest Airlines
yesterday? (HQ and apparently all databases they need to operate
in Utah). They were grounded nation-wide for about 3.5 hours.
Dave
