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Re: Famous operational issues
From: John Kristoff <jtk () dataplane org>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:28:08 -0600
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 14:07:54 -0500 John Curran <jcurrran () istaff org> wrote:
I have no idea what outages were most memorable for others, but the Stanford transfer switch explosion in October 1996 resulted in a much of the Internet in the Bay Area simply not being reachable for several days.
Thanks John. This reminds me of two I've not seen anyone mention yet. Both coincidentally in the Chicago area that I learned before my entry into netops full time. One was a flood: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood> The other, at the dawn of an earlier era: <http://telecom-digest.org/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1309.html> I wouldn't necessarily put those two in the top 3, but by some standard for many they were certainly very significant and noteworthy. John
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