NAP building

Fri May 9 09:51:11 UTC 1997

Roll on the second UK exchange point - MaNAP (should be
operational June/July), but I fail to see what all this
has to do with Nanog.

Bill

At 09:20 AM 09-05-97 +0100, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> In a previous message Neil J. McRae wrote:
>> > 
>> > Make sure it isn't Telehouse though! Someone at Telehouse London pressed
>> > the wrong button and took out the entire power to the south side of
>> > the building, nearly ever ISP in the UK, and the LINX too, was knocked
>> > out for around 45 minutes today.
>> 
>> Sorry, only UK ISPs that are careless enough to route *all* their
International
>> connectivity thru Telehouse were "knocked out" - We, and various others
ONLY
>> lost connectivity to those customers with a single line to our equipment
>> in Telehouse.
>> UK->UK traffic (to those other ISPs that survived) just re-routed
>> through Stockholm, Amsterdam, USA etc etc etc
>
>OK Richard, All ISP's where affected then, the point is Telehouse is a
disaster
>zone and there is way too much UK [and European too] traffic passing through,
>the bulding.
>
>> Sorry, Telehouse has a *much* better power record than most places I know -
>> some of the US mae's dont even have mains backup supply.
>
>Well you are a nutcase for plugging into a MAE ;)
>
>THe point is Telehouse claim this mondo wonderful power resiliance and its
>just not true.
>
>FYI: I was standing in the 1st floor ops room and watched everything go off,
>YES THATS RIGHT! The management system that Telehouse use went off too!
>so they didn't have a clue where the fault was! [eggs basket one springs to
>mind].
>
>Cheers,
>Neil.
>-- 
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