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RE: IXC Fibre cut IL,OH

  • From: Charley Kline
  • Date: Mon Sep 21 11:01:51 1998 
> IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s
> cut.  The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98.
> All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route
> between cleveland and downtown chicago.  The outage seems to affect
> the chicago area primarily.

Possibly the same cut also took out some of Consolidated/McLeod's circuits,
including our OC-3 to the AADS NAP. The McLeod guy I talked to said the cut
was in or near Kankakee, Illinois. We lost our NAP connection at 8:40am CDT
Saturday and it was restored at about 6:15pm CDT.

/cvk