Re: Discussion point: Telco quality?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 10:24 PM 10/10/98 -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> Unnamed Administration sources reported that Roeland M.J. Meyer said:
> > > Are there things that can happen to both which will really ruin your day?
> > Yes.
> >
> > Actually, on 2Sep98, PacBell had a CO failure that knocked out service, in
> > Livermore, for 12 hours. Voice, data, everything, not even 911!
>
> Not sure how a CO failure brings down leased line data....

The *whole* CO went off-line. 

> What WILL bring down the whole house..:
>
>       Fiber cut -- as well as other wholescale transmission
>               FUBAR's.

That wouldn't have taken the entire town off-line.

>       Power -- remember the NYC ATT crash? It took hours
>               to bring the DACS back up... Don't
>               overlook lightning strikes on the incoming power
>               feed.

>       Enviromental -- if the HVAC croaks, if a waterline floods
>               from the cable vault on up, or there's an
>               earthquake, or a Hinsdale-style fire. 

I would have notice an earthquake, of the fire. The CO's not far from here.

> But such will never happen, so we can all rest easy....right?

Cascaded failures will do it. aka Murphy having a party.

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