A sobering touché.
Jay Murphy IP Network Specialist NM Department of Health ITSD - IP Network Operations Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502 Bus. Ph.: 505.827.2851 "We move the information that moves your world." -----Original Message----- From: Robert M. Enger [mailto:en...@enger.us] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:59 PM To: Roy Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area That AT&T has stopped provisioning protection fiber for automatic restoral is mind boggling. That our crack (or on crack) govt contracting/emergency-preparedness staff didn't demand protected facilities for 911 is another mind boggling issue. That there is no over-under wide-area back-up coverage for the cellular canopy ... We posture and orate about being prepared for terrorist attacks and natural disasters, and then events like these reveal the reality: The emperor has no clothes. Roy wrote: > Service to South Santa Clara county is completely down: Internet, > landline, and cellphones. Both Verizon and AT&T are affected. 911 is > also down. > > My cellphones show one or no bars. Normally they are all four bars. > > The idea that all of that is lumped in one fiber bundle is mind boggling. > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Matthew Kaufman <matt...@eeph.com> wrote: > >> I saw my Sonic.net-over-AT&T ADSL go dark at 02:30 local and it is still >> down, served on a fiber remote out of SNCZCA01. (I'm guessing the 200 Paul >> outages are associated with where this ATM terminates and that's the cause, >> rather than the service in/out of Santa Cruz County, but I have no way of >> telling which from here) >> >> My own Gatespeed.net microwave to Equinix SV-3 is working fine (no surprise >> there), and I'm not seeing significant routing problems in/out of there with >> transit or peering. (Not even any down peers, so no inter-Equinix-site >> outage apparently). >> >> Matthew Kaufman >> matt...@eeph.com >> >> >> > > ______________________________________________________________________ This inbound email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including all attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited unless specifically provided under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this message. -- This email has been scanned by the Sybari - Antigen Email System.
