Apparent widespread Worldcom ATM failure

Thu Jul 19 02:33:11 UTC 2001

Who says laying fiber beside RR tracks is a bad idea? 

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Vincent J. Bono wrote:

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> This and other outages on MFN and AT&T have been caused by a freight train
> derailment north of Baltimore.
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> http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/878827/index.html
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George William Herbert" <gherbert at retro.com>
> To: <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Apparent widespread Worldcom ATM failure
> 
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> >
> > Furthering my previous:
> > I have been told that this outage totals 5 OC-48s and
> > over 100 T-3 circuits around the country.  No ETR reported.
> >
> >
> > -george william herbert
> > gherbert at retro.com
> >
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc