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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Illuminet ss7 cable cut (was Re: New York City: ATT Local Service (TCG))
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, John Fraizer wrote: > You would think that ANY outage of this size would require an outage > report, no matter what the duration. I imagine that if Illuminet customers actually provided any local service (residential or business), this would cause a bit of a stink. If someone couldn't make a life or death 911 call, even more so. ATTLS at least (the one customer of Illuminet I'm aware of) sells very heavy to the dialup market. The one customer I knew of that didn't fit the recip-comp paradigm is NYU. I only know this because there used to be a piece of paper hanging in the switch tech's office that reminded them they must page some telecom manager there whenever there was a service disruption. So even though this left thousands of dialup ports dead for at least 6 hours and left many dialup customers furious, I doubt that much will be made of it outside nanog. Nice loophole they have in reporting though. Charles > Oh well. I guess Illuminet > stockholders can expect to see a loss... That is unless the CLECs and IXCs > who use them for interconnect were stupid enough not to require SLAs or > stupid enough not to enforce them. Then again, most dialup users, let > alone local/ld dialtone carriers have enforceable SLAs so, the CLECs and > IXCs probably have a battle ahead of them to get any compensation out of > the mess. > > --- > John Fraizer > EnterZone, Inc > > > On 28 Jun 2000, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > > The problem is with a Bell Atlantic cable cut affecting Illuminet. Illuminet > > is a SS7 network provider which interconnects many different IXCs and CLECs > > with the local ILEC. The cable is along Route 30 in Lancaster Pennsylvania. > > > > This is not the first time a cable cut has taken out the SS7 signaling > > in the Illuminet network. But due to the quirks in the FCC reporting > > regulations, Illuminet hasn't reported any outage. Previously Illuminet > > has a cable cuts in Illinois on February 26, 1998 and October 1997 which > > disrupted many CLECs and IXCs. Instead of installing their own dedicated > > circuits to every SS7 STP, they use Illuminet as a shared network. This > > means a problem with a relatively unknown network has very widespread affect. > > > > > > > > > >
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