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Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie () mibh net>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 11:42:28 -0700
scottd () cloud9 net (Scott Drassinower) writes:
MCI WorldCom has a fiber cut in White Plains, NY, as of 0902 EDT this morning. MFS service seems to be decimated, although the Brooks network is totally intact.
i guess fibre is just not being laid in rings any more? why on earth should a single backhoe cut be able to take ANY circuit out? for the "exchange level peering" PAIX and Ames are setting up, PAIX is using NextLink as the dark fibre provider. but PAIX is not buying a path, we are buying a strand. it's ~250 miles long and goes all the way around the Bay. we're going to interrupt it in two places (PAIX and Ames) with Sonet-capable gear. when the inevitable backhoe comes, only one of the two ways around this ring will be sliced. my hope is that we can restore that cut before the other backhoe comes and slices at the other radian. but i've got to say, i didn't invent this topology -- it's what i've been told is the only way to do something like this, so i'm doing it like i was told to. apparently noone told MFS that this was the only way to do something like this? why pay the complexity and cost overhead of SONET if you're not building rings? -- Paul Vixie <vixie () mibh net> >> But what *IS* the internet? > It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive > symmetric closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP > packet from". --Seth Breidbart
Current thread:
- MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Scott Drassinower (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY William Allen Simpson (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 10)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Alex Bligh (Oct 10)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Jesper Skriver (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Jesper Skriver (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY William Allen Simpson (Oct 09)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Paul A Vixie (Oct 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Sean Donelan (Oct 10)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Danny McPherson (Oct 11)
- Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut in White Plains, NY Peter Galbavy (Oct 12)