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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (14)	9/30/1999 6:32:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) of 1782

Re: Massive Fiber Cut Pauses East-West Traffic zdnet.com Massive Fiber Cut Pauses East-West Traffic By Max Smetannikov, Inter@ctive Week September 29, 1999 11:42 AM PT At least four Internet service providers are experiencing severe traffic backlogs [fac edit: new technical term .grin.] because of a massive fiber-optic cable cut that put out four OC-192 lines connecting data networks on the East and West Coasts. Industry sources told Inter@ctive Week that the cut was accidentally made by an unidentified gas company in Ohio around 12:30 EST today. The news is sending shockwaves through the networking community, with many carrier operators struggling to understand why, all of a sudden, their traffic is routed through London and Denmark. At least four Internet service providers are being affected by the outage. Various online sources have named AboveNet; GTE Internetworking; and MFS Communications, a WorldCom subsidiary, as ISPs hit the worst. "Let me tell you, it really hurts right now," said Dave Rand, AboveNet's chief technology officer. "We were given a 1 hour estimate for this problem to be corrected." GTE Internetworking's public relations department had heard of an outage in Pennsylvania earlier today, but had no comment on the Ohio development. MCI WorldCom public relations didn't have an immediate answer to the query. ==== A later report from NANOG: Here is what I have recieved thus far: Updated By: psarrate at 09-29-1999 19:24 GMT The teleco reports that the cut may have been caused by gas company workers while they were doing construction work in the area. Estimated time to repair (ETR) is 4 to 6 hours. The reason for this extened time is because there is not enough slack in the cable to bring the two cut ends together. An additional section of fiber is needed to make the splice. The needed fiber is hours away and needs to be trucked in.

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