[9223] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAP building
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri May 9 04:28:28 1997
To: rpa@insnet.net (Richard Almeida)
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 09:20:07 +0100 (BST)
Cc: neil@domino.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705081654.RAA13403@aurora.uk.insnet.net> from "Richard Almeida" at May 8, 97 05:54:51 pm
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
>
>
> In a previous message Neil J. McRae wrote:
> >
> > Make sure it isn't Telehouse though! Someone at Telehouse London pressed
> > the wrong button and took out the entire power to the south side of
> > the building, nearly ever ISP in the UK, and the LINX too, was knocked
> > out for around 45 minutes today.
>
> Sorry, only UK ISPs that are careless enough to route *all* their International
> connectivity thru Telehouse were "knocked out" - We, and various others ONLY
> lost connectivity to those customers with a single line to our equipment
> in Telehouse.
> UK->UK traffic (to those other ISPs that survived) just re-routed
> through Stockholm, Amsterdam, USA etc etc etc
OK Richard, All ISP's where affected then, the point is Telehouse is a disaster
zone and there is way too much UK [and European too] traffic passing through,
the bulding.
> Sorry, Telehouse has a *much* better power record than most places I know -
> some of the US mae's dont even have mains backup supply.
Well you are a nutcase for plugging into a MAE ;)
THe point is Telehouse claim this mondo wonderful power resiliance and its
just not true.
FYI: I was standing in the 1st floor ops room and watched everything go off,
YES THATS RIGHT! The management system that Telehouse use went off too!
so they didn't have a clue where the fault was! [eggs basket one springs to
mind].
Cheers,
Neil.
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