Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

["James D. Butt" <jbutt () firecracker com>]

I certainly understand why utility power goes out and that is the reason 
why MCI loosing power confuses me.  I am pretty sure that someone at MCI 
also realizes why the blackout happens and how fragile things are.

It is irresponsible for a Tier 1 infrastructure provider to not be able to 
generate their own and have large chunks of their network fail do to the 
inability to power it. I bet you every SBC CO in the affected area was 
still pushing power out to customer prems.

Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider 
could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with 
proper operations and engineering.

JD


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:

> > Not sure I understand how on earth something like this happens... power
> is
> > not that confusing to make sure it does not stop working.
>
> Is that so?
>
> Have you read the report on the Northeast blackout of 2003?
> https://reports.energy.gov/
>
> --Michael Dillon