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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
Has anyone come to the conclusion that there might be a market for titanium-reinforced innerduct? Add up the yearly costs of outages for the average provider and the high costs of indestructable conduit make more sense. At 02:02 PM 10/5/99 -0400, Scott Drassinower wrote: > > >MCI WorldCom claims that they have located a fiber cut in or near >Syracuse, NY (300+ miles northwest of NYC and White Plains) that is >the cause of the outage. They say crews have been dispatched. > >We had several MCI WorldCom circuits go out of service at about 12:40 EDT. >Some of the circuits are totally within WorldCom's fiber network, some >have endpoints on Bell Atlantic's network. All are in the NYC area. > >Unconfirmed by WorldCom, but apparently this cut has taken out two OC-48s. > >It's very interesting (and seemingly absurd) that to go 25 miles south, we >first must go 300 miles in the totally opposite direction. > >-- > Scott M. Drassinower [email protected] > Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY > +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net > > > > Michael Heller Sr. Systems Engineer Earthweb, Inc. 212.448.4175 [email protected]
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