[92634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: West Coast Fiber Cut?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Brezinsky)
Fri Sep 29 15:42:38 2006
From: Andy Brezinsky <andy@mbrez.com>
To: Rick Kunkel <kunkel@w-link.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0609291226140.12121-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:36:07 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Global crossing is reporting that SBC was horizontal boring and knocked
out Quest and SBC fiber. This is 4 km north of Wolden Ave and Main St.
in Red Bluff, CA. Qwest has techs on site and they're digging.
--
~Andy Brezinsky
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 12:29 -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber between Los Angeles and
> Washington that was supposed cut this morning? Our network is having
> gnarly problems through one of our providers and lesser ones through the
> other. Investigation went on for about 2 hours, whereupon i finally
> received an email from InterNAP talking about the problems starting at
> 9:45AM PDT, and being rooted in this fiber cut. My other provider has
> since told me that it was a Qwest fiber, and that most major transit
> providers were using it.
>
> Anyone heard anything else about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Kunkel
>
