OUTAGE: TCG milwaukee and chicago - reason why...

Thu Mar 25 13:50:53 UTC 1999

Sean,

TCG did have a fiber cut between Chicago and Milwaukee yesterday that
affected quite a bit
of service between the two cities as well as within TCG Chicago.   We had
circuits down for
6 hours because of this cut.   They restored service at 9:10 PM.

But the killer story here is that the cause of the fiber cut was
because someone got fired and the guy went cutting through fibers
left and right.  I could not get information on whether this was a
TCG or Ameritech employee... their NOC wouldn't tell/didn't know.
The guy was arrested immeadiately.

- Brian
brianv at xnet.com
XNet Information Systems

> I received a report of TCG being down between Milwaukee and Chicago
starting
> at 4:00pm CST on March 24 (yesterday).  Does anyone have more information
> on this one?
>
> Thanks,
> sean.
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
>   Affiliation given for identification not representation