An analysis.

Fri Jan 30 11:09:10 UTC 2004

>Which one of you guys took down the world? 
>We have separate carriers for internet, ATM, and Phone

Whenever you get simultaneous outages for multiple
telecom services at the same time it's almost always due
to a local issue like a major cable cut or a central
office fire. Sounds like a SONET ring that was either
unprotected or both legs cut. After 10 minutes someone
manually rerouted the circuits.

--Michael Dillon

P.S. Larry, what do you think? Leading by example? 