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Re: Hurricane Frances impacts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Wallingford)
Sun Sep 5 21:13:27 2004

Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 21:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0409051757550.19805@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


:The networks in Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, Brevard counties appear to
:be the most impacted.  Cellular had problems due to wireless sites being
:without power.  The wireless industry brought in 500 new generators in
:advance of the hurricane, but needed to wait until the hurricane passed
:before sending them out to the cell sites.  Miami and Orlando also have
:sites down due to power issues and connectivity to local carriers.
:
:The various local access line providers in Florida, Florida has a lot of
:tiny LATAs and phone companies, report some access lines are down but
:haven't published any counts.  Cable networks have the same issues with
:local cable service.  No reports of damage to telephone central offices or
:cable headends.
:
:Due to power outages and local access network problems, bank networks and
:cash machines are out of service in most of the affected counties.
:
:No reports of problems to any NAPs, POPs, data centers or fiber trunks.
:They generally have permanent generators. So if you have local
:connectivity, Internet access is working.  Streaming audio/video from
:Florida television and radio stations over the Internet did not have any
:problems.

Any details on the status of natural gas lines in FL, and approximately
how many facilities use such for generator power vs diesel?

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