BT network outage

Wed Nov 21 16:40:26 UTC 2001

Do you have a url or something that we can reference for this incident?

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:39 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: BT network outage

The joy of single provider service.  British Telecom lost most
of its national IP backbone on Tuesday affecting DSL and Dialup
service across multiple ISPs in the UK.  According to news
reports, this affected almost all DSL service in the UK.

What happened to BT?  Is this a unique "feature" of the UK marketplace
or can the same thing happen in the USA?