Re: IXC Fibre cut IL,OH

["Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 02:04:46PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:39:21AM -0500, Charley Kline wrote:
> > > IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s
> > > cut.  The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98.
> > > All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route
> > > between cleveland and downtown chicago.  The outage seems to affect
> > > the chicago area primarily.
> >
> > Possibly the same cut also took out some of Consolidated/McLeod's circuits,
> > including our OC-3 to the AADS NAP. The McLeod guy I talked to said the cut
> > was in or near Kankakee, Illinois. We lost our NAP connection at 8:40am CDT
> > Saturday and it was restored at about 6:15pm CDT.
>
> I guess the train pulled out...

Heh. And I found out today that Qual.Net (to whom I'm indirectly connected)
was affected too...

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