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Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

  • From: James D. Butt
  • Date: Fri Aug 12 07:52:09 2005
  • /m: 28/d:647 spam: 2.64


I certainly understand why utility power goes out and that is the reason why MCI loosing power confuses me. I am pretty sure that someone at MCI also realizes why the blackout happens and how fragile things are.

It is irresponsible for a Tier 1 infrastructure provider to not be able to generate their own and have large chunks of their network fail do to the inability to power it. I bet you every SBC CO in the affected area was still pushing power out to customer prems.

Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with proper operations and engineering.

JD


On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 [email protected] wrote:



Not sure I understand how on earth something like this happens... power



is



not that confusing to make sure it does not stop working.



Is that so?

Have you read the report on the Northeast blackout of 2003?
https://reports.energy.gov/

--Michael Dillon