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Re: Major fiber cut in Tyson's Corner area

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Wed Apr 14 00:15:11 1999

Oh. The one thing I forgot to mention is that the
local news reported it as a "major local telephone outage".

- paul


At 05:19 PM 4/13/99 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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>For what it's worth:
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>I just heard on the local news that 3 fiber optic cables, as well as
>one large copper bundle was cut in the Tyson's Corner area (Northern
>Virginia). No idea what impact it may have on net traffic, although one
>fiber strand was reported as belonging to MCI.
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>For those who may not know, MAE-East is in the Tysons Corner vicinity.
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>- paul
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