[83372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James D. Butt)
Fri Aug 12 07:51:15 2005
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:50:47 -0500 (CDT)
From: "James D. Butt" <jbutt@firecracker.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF6C4C82DB.C540DC9A-ON8025705B.003429E1-8025705B.00343D6C@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I certainly understand why utility power goes out and that is the reason
why MCI loosing power confuses me. I am pretty sure that someone at MCI
also realizes why the blackout happens and how fragile things are.
It is irresponsible for a Tier 1 infrastructure provider to not be able to
generate their own and have large chunks of their network fail do to the
inability to power it. I bet you every SBC CO in the affected area was
still pushing power out to customer prems.
Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider
could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with
proper operations and engineering.
JD
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>
>> Not sure I understand how on earth something like this happens... power
> is
>> not that confusing to make sure it does not stop working.
>
> Is that so?
>
> Have you read the report on the Northeast blackout of 2003?
> https://reports.energy.gov/
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
