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Re: Famous operational issues
From: Paul Ebersman <list-nanog2 () dragon net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:58:32 -0700
jlewis> This reminds me of one of the Sprint CO's we were colo'd in. Ah, Sprint. Nothing like using your railroad to run phone lines... Our routers in San Jose colo were black from the soot of the trains. Fondly remember a major Sprint outage in the early 90s. All our data circuits in the southeast went down at once and there were major voice outages in the entire southeast. Turns out a storm caused a mudslide which in turn derailed a train carrying toxic waste, resulting in a wave of 6-10' of toxic mud taking out the Spring voice pop for the whole southeast, because it was conveniently located right on said railroad tracks. We were a big enough customer that PLSC in Atlanta gave us the real story when we asked for an ETA on repair. They couldn't give us one immediately until the HAZMAT crew let them in. Turned out to be a total loss of all gear. They yanked every tech east of the Misssissippi and a 7ESS was Fedex overnighted (stolen from some customer in the middle east?) and they had to rebuild everything. Was down less than 10 days. Good times.
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- Re: Famous operational issues, (continued)
- Re: Famous operational issues Randy Bush (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Damian Menscher via NANOG (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Todd Underwood (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sean Donelan (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jörg Kost (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Richard Golodner (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Justin Streiner (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jared Mauch (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sabri Berisha (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jon Lewis (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Paul Ebersman (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Sabri Berisha (Feb 16)
- Re: Famous operational issues Rogier van Eeten via NANOG (Feb 17)
- Re: Famous operational issues Owen DeLong (Feb 17)
- Re: Famous operational issues Eric Kuhnke (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Jared Mauch (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Warren Kumari (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Karl Auer (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues George Herbert (Feb 18)
- Re: Famous operational issues Henry Yen (Feb 20)
- Re: Famous operational issues Alain Hebert (Feb 22)