Re: Illuminet ss7 cable cut (was Re: New York City: ATT Local Service (TCG))

[John Fraizer <nanog () EnterZone Net>]

You would think that ANY outage of this size would require an outage
report, no matter what the duration.  Oh well.  I guess Illuminet
stockholders can expect to see a loss... That is unless the CLECs and IXCs
who use them for interconnect were stupid enough not to require SLAs or
stupid enough not to enforce them.  Then again, most dialup users, let
alone local/ld dialtone carriers have enforceable SLAs so, the CLECs and
IXCs probably have a battle ahead of them to get any compensation out of
the mess.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc


On 28 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

> The problem is with a Bell Atlantic cable cut affecting Illuminet.  Illuminet
> is a SS7 network provider which interconnects many different IXCs and CLECs
> with the local ILEC.  The cable is along Route 30 in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
>
> This is not the first time a cable cut has taken out the SS7 signaling
> in the Illuminet network.  But due to the quirks in the FCC reporting
> regulations, Illuminet hasn't reported any outage.  Previously Illuminet
> has a cable cuts in Illinois on February 26, 1998 and October 1997 which
> disrupted many CLECs and IXCs.  Instead of installing their own dedicated
> circuits to every SS7 STP, they use Illuminet as a shared network.  This
> means a problem with a relatively unknown network has very widespread affect.