Carrier reliability and diversity

Fri Apr 6 01:15:36 UTC 2001

The service interruption was apparently a result of a major regional power 
failure in Northern Virginia. I'm curious whether it was AOL or their 
providers who suffered from the power failure. I would expect AOL would 
have back-up power.

http://www.techtv.com/news/internet/story/0,24195,3320700,00.html

jas

At 07:01 PM 4/5/01 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:57:19PM -0400, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:39:10PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > >
> > > The air line reservation system Galileo had significant problems
> > > earlier.
> > >
> > > Excerpt from Reuters:
> > >  "The outage began about 8:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time on Wednesday
> > >  and lasted until 10:55 a.m. MDT on Thursday, said Beth Tennis, vice
> > >  present of enterprise networks for Quantitude, Galileo's Denver-based
> > >  networking subsidiary. It affected three of the four T-1 high-speed
> > >  data transmission lines supplied to Galileo by AT&T Corp., said
> > >  Beth Tennis"
> >
> > 4 T1's were down in Denver? Stop the world, I want off. :P
> >
> > You missed the bigger story about the AOL Instant Messanger outtage for a
> > large portion of the day (which I heard lots about from all my AIM loving
> > friends). Doubtless many thousands of network engineers were cut off from
> > their vital lines of communication.
>
>         Today was the second multi-hour outage in the past week of AIM
>that i'm aware of.
>
>         - Jared