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Martin Hannigan wrote: They could've back doored the long haul, and it's possible they did on different products. The local traffic would pop back if they did depending upon network configuration since the FCP's and CO's are still up and running. Think about it, if you can make a phone call during a fiber cut, why can't you process an IP packet? (I'm discussing layer 1. I'm waiting to see the preso in Dallas to comment on anything higher :) ) Well, sometimes you can't make a phone call during a fiber cut. During the Sprint outage a couple of weeks ago the first thing we noticed were strange PSTN outages. High-and-dry and reorder for the most part with an occasional "circuits busy" intercept. The cut didn't have any significant effect on IP as far as we could tell (but we're not a Sprint customer). -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - [email protected] NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323
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