[88311] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Sun Jan 29 20:27:57 2006
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:27:32 -0800
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a06230912c002e9aec7a4@[192.168.15.101]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Martin Hannigan wrote:
> They could've back doored the long haul, and it's possible they
> did on different products. The local traffic would pop back if
> they did depending upon network configuration since the FCP's
> and CO's are still up and running. Think about it, if you can
> make a phone call during a fiber cut, why can't you process an
> IP packet? (I'm discussing layer 1. I'm waiting to see the preso
> in Dallas to comment on anything higher :) )
Well, sometimes you can't make a phone call during a fiber cut.
During the Sprint outage a couple of weeks ago the first thing
we noticed were strange PSTN outages. High-and-dry and reorder
for the most part with an occasional "circuits busy" intercept.
The cut didn't have any significant effect on IP as far as we
could tell (but we're not a Sprint customer).
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