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Roll on the second UK exchange point - MaNAP (should be operational June/July), but I fail to see what all this has to do with Nanog. Bill At 09:20 AM 09-05-97 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >> In a previous message Neil J. McRae wrote: >> > >> > Make sure it isn't Telehouse though! Someone at Telehouse London pressed >> > the wrong button and took out the entire power to the south side of >> > the building, nearly ever ISP in the UK, and the LINX too, was knocked >> > out for around 45 minutes today. >> >> Sorry, only UK ISPs that are careless enough to route *all* their International >> connectivity thru Telehouse were "knocked out" - We, and various others ONLY >> lost connectivity to those customers with a single line to our equipment >> in Telehouse. >> UK->UK traffic (to those other ISPs that survived) just re-routed >> through Stockholm, Amsterdam, USA etc etc etc > >OK Richard, All ISP's where affected then, the point is Telehouse is a disaster >zone and there is way too much UK [and European too] traffic passing through, >the bulding. > >> Sorry, Telehouse has a *much* better power record than most places I know - >> some of the US mae's dont even have mains backup supply. > >Well you are a nutcase for plugging into a MAE ;) > >THe point is Telehouse claim this mondo wonderful power resiliance and its >just not true. > >FYI: I was standing in the 1st floor ops room and watched everything go off, >YES THATS RIGHT! The management system that Telehouse use went off too! >so they didn't have a clue where the fault was! [eggs basket one springs to >mind]. > >Cheers, >Neil. >-- >Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. D O M I N O >[email protected] NetBSD/sparc - 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) > Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">Computer!</A> > > U-NET Ltd "Easy Internet Access" mailto:[email protected] http://www.u-net.net/ Tel 01925 484444 Fax 01925 484466 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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