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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical STATUS: Hurricane Bonnie
I seem to have become the unofficial outage reporter for the Internet. Now that Hurricane Bonnie has been downgraded to a tropical storm, how did the net fair? First things first. So far no reported deaths or serious injuries. There was some rain-fade on microwave and vsat circuits, and a few individual local loop circuits to end-users are down. But no reported backbone or regional affecting outages. The bulk of site outages seems to be related to loss of electrical power at the end-user site, not in the Internet facilities. Bell South had pre-positioned generators at their major central offices. One emergency management agency did loose both commercial power and their backup generator at one point during the storm. During a hurricane, backhoe activity slows down :-) The dangerous time will be during the cleanup efforts as flooding may have unearthed facilities throughout the eastern part of the state. The National Hurricane Center took their web site off the net due to the load it was putting on the rest of their network. This seemed to be a deliberate mitigation act rather than a failure. During the last 24 hours, the only major carrier outage I've seen was on the other coast of the united states. MCI lost a number of circuits in southern California (San Diego/Los Angeles) this morning due to equipment failure. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
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