Re: Cogent norther california fiber cut -- details?

2005-05-14 Thread Pete Templin
John van Oppen wrote: Anyone know anything about the Fiber cut that took Cogent's Seattle POP out of commission at about 6 PM (PST) today? AboveNet reported a fiber cut at 1852PDT which they believe to be in the Sacramento area. Oddly enough, we saw a regular stream of ~5000 BGP update messag

"Call Before You Dig" Article: [Was Re: Cogent norther california fiber cut -- details?]

2005-05-14 Thread Frank Coluccio
Pete, All, This may be slightly OT, but I thought it would be of interest to many here, just the same: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21324247 Comments concerning live outage reporting from Sean Donelan and others who've stayed on top of outage and D/R matters would be appre

Re: 'Call Before You Dig' Article: [Was Re: Cogent norther california fiber cut -- details?]

2005-05-14 Thread Frank Coluccio
The URL that should have been shown in the preceding message: "Call Before You Dig" by Glenn Fox http://www.pobonline.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/Article/0,9169,100727,00.html Sorry about that. Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting Inc. 212-857-8150 Office 347-526-6788 Mobile -- On Sat May 14

Re: 'Call Before You Dig' Article

2005-05-14 Thread Curtis Doty
This issue went national in March 2005 with the addition of a new N11 number for "One Call" notification. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-257293A1.pdf The new abbreviated number will be 811 and it looks like carriers are required to implement by April 2007--since it's been

Re: 'Call Before You Dig' Article

2005-05-14 Thread Roy
Curtis Doty wrote: This issue went national in March 2005 with the addition of a new N11 number for "One Call" notification. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-257293A1.pdf The new abbreviated number will be 811 and it looks like carriers are required to implement by April 20

Re: 'Call Before You Dig' Article

2005-05-14 Thread Frank Coluccio
Thanks to Curtis, first. And Roy echoed my next question. This is an interesting example of how pending and future regulatory decisions that are based on assumptions of an earlier time are now intersecting with VoIP providers' existing capabilities and future "responsibilities." Frank -