[84494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LA power outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Tue Sep 13 21:42:10 2005
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:40:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: sjsobol@JustThe.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050913.182829.15074.410832@webmail02.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> It's also interesting to note that, at least by some estimates,
> the brief power outage in L.A. yesterday took down more networks
> than Hurrucane Katrina:
>
> http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170702966
>
> Of course, So. California is pretty "network-dense", but what does
> that say about the level of seriousness that network operators place
> on their "uptime"?
I think there is a difference as to network going down for 3 hours
and network going down for 3 months...
BTW - care to speculate what will happen if cat5 hurricane hits LA? :)
Or maybe we should be thinking of 8+ earthquake ....
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
