From Sprint's status page

Wed Oct 1 19:18:48 UTC 2003

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| Type: Outage
| Purpose: Routing Issues
| Network: SL
| Ticket: 6505769
| Sprint Id: 16881
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Sprint is currently experiencing an outage in 
Seattle, WA Tacoma, WA and Tokyo, Japan. 

Sprint is committed to providing an exceptional customer experience 
based on a portfolio of reliable products and services. Because we 
realize how important your network solution is to your business, 
Sprint makes every attempt to avoid interruptions to the quality 
service provided. While we attempt to limit our service interruptions 
to occur during scheduled maintenance windows, occasionally we 
experience an outage such as this which may impact your service 
outside of our maintenance window. We will attempt to minimize the 
impact to your service and strive to maintain our network to our 
high quality standards and to continually serve you, our valued 
customer. 

All of us at Sprint appreciate the opportunity to provide a network 
solution that meets your telecommunications needs. 

Your private line(s) impacted by this outage and/or router(s) associated

with your service are listed below. Demand maintenance is underway to 
restore service from the outage caused by fiber outage. 

Customers whose only connection to the Sprintlink IP network is via this

gateway router will experience loss of Internet connectivity for the 
duration of the emergency maintenance. 

Expected time to repair is Unknown. 

Please bear with us as we work to fix the problem. 
Thank you for your patronage. 

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Tacoma, WA ROUTERS INVOLVED IN OUTAGE
SL-GW10-TAC SL-GW1-TAC SL-GW9-TAC SL-GW5-TAC
SL-GW5-TAC SL-GW11-TAC SL-GW3-TAC SL-GW8-TAC SL-GW6-TAC
SL-GW6-TAC SL-GW4-TAC SL-GW12-TAC SL-GW2-TAC 

START TIME (local): 14:40 PDT 01-OCT-2003
START TIME (gmt ): 21:40 GMT 01-OCT-2003
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Seattle, WA ROUTERS INVOLVED IN OUTAGE
SL-GW1-SEA SL-GW15-SEA SL-GW8-SEA SL-GW3-SEA
SL-GW3-SEA SL-GW13-SEA SL-GW6-SEA SL-GW10-SEA SL-GW4-SEA
SL-GW4-SEA SL-GW9-SEA SL-GW11-SEA SL-GW5-SEA SL-GW7-SEA
SL-GW7-SEA SL-GW14-SEA SL-GW2-SEA 

START TIME (local): 14:40 PDT 01-OCT-2003
START TIME (gmt ): 21:40 GMT 01-OCT-2003
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Tokyo, Japan ROUTERS INVOLVED IN OUTAGE
SL-GW21-TOK SL-GW20-TOK SL-GW10-TOK SL-GW1-TOK
SL-GW1-TOK 

START TIME (local): 14:40 JST 01-OCT-2003
START TIME (gmt ): 05:40 GMT 01-OCT-2003
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Nick Guy ---- Manager of Network Operations  
Semaphore Corporation 
2001 6th Ave Suite 1700 , Seattle, WA 98121
nickguy at semaphore.com                   
206-905-5023    |  24/7 NOC: - 206-905-6000
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