[83352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James D. Butt)
Thu Aug 11 14:10:44 2005
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:10:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: "James D. Butt" <jbutt@firecracker.com>
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200508111616.j7BGGav9000127@host122.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>>> we had a loss of comercial power(coned) in the downers grove terminal.
>>> terminal is up on generator power now.
>>>
>>
>> that seems to map to the internal firedrill as well, anyone else hit by
>> this event?
>>
>
> Electric utility had a sub-station burn up. resulting in a medium-sized
> geographic area without power -- something like 17,000 residences according
> to news reports (no numbers on 'commercial' custeomrs provided).
>
> AT&T has a facility in the affected area, and were also without utility power.
>
> Rumor mill says that Sprint had a (moderately small) number of T-3 circuits
> affected, as well.
ATT must adhere to some diffrent engineering standards; as well devices we
monitor there were all fine no blips... but all of the MCI customers we
have in IL, MI, WI, MN all had issues...
Power went out at 4:30 ish and ckts all dumped about 8:30 pm...
Then bounced until 6:30 AM this morning.
Not sure I understand how on earth something like this happens... power is
not that confusing to make sure it does not stop working.
JD
