[98855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent latency / congestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Aug 21 02:11:46 2007
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:10:35 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg@netzero.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070820.182524.3377.0@webmail13.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> For what its worth:
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> Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown
> Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by
> gunfire.
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> [snip]
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> More:
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> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/082107-gunplay-blamed-for-internet.ht
> ml
I guess there will probably be a spec for armored OSP cable now. I just
thought it was cool indoors. I never realized Cleveland was so dangerous
to telecommunications equipment. :_)
DJ
