Re: uunet fiber cut (pgh, pa)

[Alex <alex () nac net>]

This worldcom outage is somehow (according to the Broadwing NOC, which
gets about a -4 on my clue scale) affecting Broadwing, Williams, Wiltel
(isn't that worldcom?) on the northeast corridor. 

I've lost a DS3 from NYC to Philly, suspiciously at the same time as this
pittsburgh outage. 



On 19 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Mon, 19 June 2000, deeann mikula wrote:
> > does anyone have the scoop on the "major fiber cut" in the UUnet
> > backbone affecting areas around pgh, pa?
>
> Worldcom has a fiber cut affecting at least 11 OC48s between Pittsburgh
> and Washington DC.  Folks have reported that UUNET's Pittsburg hub was
> isolated from the rest of the network.  The best estimated time to repair
> is sometime overnight.
>
> Also Sprint reloaded most of their routers recently, and there have been
> sporadic reports of problems in different Sprint cities yesterday.  I don't
> have good information about the reasons.