Re: Fiber outage for BBN 29 Sep

[Elvis <elvis () fallenones org>]

Yes, it wasn't exactly just BBN either, affected lots of providers... I
believe it was MCI owned fiber.  At least the DC one.  Dunno about the
Texas.

Bill


On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Andy McConnell wrote:

> Curious - no one seemed to mention BBN Planet's "major" fiber cut
> yesterday.  Their trouble system "shortcutted" calls to an automated
> message saying there were two major cuts in the Texas and Washington DC
> area.  their ticket was #273439.  As a BBN customer, we had trouble
> getting out of BBN all morning, and by early afternoon things were fine.
>
> Did anyone on the list see this sort of trouble? 
>
> -Andy
>
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