IXC Fibre cut IL,OH

Sat Sep 19 19:43:12 UTC 1998

Cut is isolated...

It is in CHI area..

Right outside a carrier known only as "Norlight"..
The join appears to be known as the "MidWest Relay"..
Several pipes vendors appear to be affected, one of which
is CNI, aka "Consolidated McClout" (sp ?)

ETR: Initial circuits 1 hour, 30 min....
     Remainder ASAP.

  On site technicians swear that the "Big Hoe" was seen in the area..
Strange tracks have been found, and one technicians appears
to have an *actual* recording of the eerie sounds
it makes in the middle of the night....

  :)

Good luck... and enjoy the day everyone.

Bradley Reynolds wrote:
> 
> IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s
> cut.  The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98.
> All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route
> between cleveland and downtown chicago.  The outage seems to affect
> the chicago area primarily.
> 
> IXC was unable to provide ETR.
> 
> On a side-note, if you are in the ameritech service area,
> ixc's 800 number translation is not working.  You get to
> hear a non-standard 'all circuits are busy'.   If you need
> to reach them, call their austin number 5124273700
> 
> BR