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At 10:24 PM 10/10/98 -0400, David Lesher wrote: >Unnamed Administration sources reported that Roeland M.J. Meyer said: >> >Are there things that can happen to both which will really ruin your day? >> Yes. >> >> Actually, on 2Sep98, PacBell had a CO failure that knocked out service, in >> Livermore, for 12 hours. Voice, data, everything, not even 911! > >Not sure how a CO failure brings down leased line data.... The *whole* CO went off-line. >What WILL bring down the whole house..: > > Fiber cut -- as well as other wholescale transmission > FUBAR's. That wouldn't have taken the entire town off-line. > Power -- remember the NYC ATT crash? It took hours > to bring the DACS back up... Don't > overlook lightning strikes on the incoming power > feed. > Enviromental -- if the HVAC croaks, if a waterline floods > from the cable vault on up, or there's an > earthquake, or a Hinsdale-style fire. I would have notice an earthquake, of the fire. The CO's not far from here. >But such will never happen, so we can all rest easy....right? Cascaded failures will do it. aka Murphy having a party. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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