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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Today's Outage
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Sean Donelan wrote: > Well, today's outage is a small one. Southwestern Bell lost power > to their central office in Ladue, Missouri (just outside of St. Louis). > This affects all local telephone service in Ladue and several > surrounding communities. No big deal, except our Network Operations > Center happens to receive its local dial tone from the Ladue central No big deal for yourselves maybe, but we had several hundred ISDN customers hammer or NOC at that time, since all BRI's in SE MO are served out of that CO. I did talk to someone about the problem, but unfortunatly, SWBT has moved their NOC to KC and they were clueless to the problem, and their battery ran dry, and the generator failed to start. > > Any alternative carriers care to schedule an appointment for a presentation > on your facilities based alternate local service offerings? People > just reselling unbundled network elements from Southwestern Bell are > in the same boat as SWBT. In St Louis, that would be MFS, TCG and Intermedia. MFS is CT1 only, TCG is on drugs as far as pricing goes, and Intermedia is still trying to get their stuff working correctly as far as trunking to SWBT. =========================================================== Tim Flavin Your 1st Choice for Internet Access Internet 1st, Inc Toll Free Sales: 800-875-3173 http://www.i1.net Toll Free Support: 888-881-4800 ===========================================================
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