MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY

Tue Oct 5 20:41:03 UTC 1999

Has anyone come to the conclusion that there might be a market for
titanium-reinforced innerduct?
Add up the yearly costs of outages for the average provider and the high
costs of indestructable conduit make more sense.

At 02:02 PM 10/5/99 -0400, Scott Drassinower wrote:
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>MCI WorldCom claims that they have located a fiber cut in or near
>Syracuse, NY (300+ miles northwest of NYC and White Plains) that is
>the cause of the outage.  They say crews have been dispatched.
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>We had several MCI WorldCom circuits go out of service at about 12:40 EDT.
>Some of the circuits are totally within WorldCom's fiber network, some
>have endpoints on Bell Atlantic's network.  All are in the NYC area.
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>Unconfirmed by WorldCom, but apparently this cut has taken out two OC-48s.
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>It's very interesting (and seemingly absurd) that to go 25 miles south, we
>first must go 300 miles in the totally opposite direction.  
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Michael Heller
Sr. Systems Engineer
Earthweb, Inc.
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mikeh at earthweb.com