[97544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Fri Jun 22 10:43:58 2007
From: Jim Popovitch <yahoo@jimpop.com>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <49420.81.64.204.196.1182522469.squirrel@vps.globalwholesalebandwidth.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:43:46 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 10:27 -0400, Roderick S. Beck wrote:
> the real news is that one of the TransAtlantic cables has had one
> of their two cables severed. Repair is not expected until after
> the US July 4th holiday.
>
> So none of the customers on that well known system have any ring
> protection at this point nor will they during the next two weeks.
Isn't that the way a ring works? Sounds like everything is working
as designed.
-Jim P.
