Re: April 2000 COVAD dsl problems

[Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk () power net>]

In LA they had three seperate multi-hour outages. A few customers
where down for more then two days.

Dirk

On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 01:58:43AM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> In the east, NY specifically, they had a multitude of problems, that in a
> period of four days, we had an outage for more than 48 hours cume.
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> One problem was 'AT&T related'.
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> Another was that they reached the connection limit on the BPX.
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> An another was a qwest DS3 acting flakey.
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> On 21 Apr 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> > I've received a report that COVAD had several switch problems affecting
> > their DSL service across the country dating back to April 5.  At least
> > three multi-hour outages have happened.  I tried contacting COVAD, but
> > was directed to call my local ISP.  Mail to noc () covad net bounced as
> > undeliverable.
> >
> > Is anyone aware what is happening.  Is it a switch problem, operation,
> > or something else.