[85897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Glenn)
Tue Oct 18 17:20:06 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:17:18 -0700
From: Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: "Olsen, Jason" <jolsen@devry.com>,
Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A01444C05@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/18/05, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:
> My guess is water on a DACS bay or complete power loss in the
> CO (rarer than water on a DACS).
>
Having grown up two blocks from said CO; I can attest the power setup
is very, very well built out. Not to say even the biggest, well
engineered power plants can't fail spectacularly; but this isn't a
tiny CO by any standard.
regards,
aaron.glenn