Abovenet OC48 down

Thu Oct 25 22:20:57 UTC 2007


Simon Lockhart wrote:
> On Thu Oct 25, 2007 at 02:54:27PM -0700, Jason Matthews wrote:
>   
>> I lost nearly all of my bgp routes to Above a few minutes ago. The NOC 
>> has they have an oc48 down some where, as of this writing the location 
>> has not been localized.
>>     
>
> Does anyone actually believe that an ISP could know that they've got an
> OC48 down, but not which one it was?
>
> Simon
>   
It probably has more to do with not knowing the locality of the 
failure.  Knowing you have a circuit down, and knowing why and the 
location of the failure are two very different things. Given that I 
spoke to them within ten minutes of failure, that is hardly enough time 
to mobilize splice teams, recall people from dinner breaks, etc. It is a 
no brainer that they dont have alot of information.


j.