UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

Fri Aug 12 11:50:47 UTC 2005

I certainly understand why utility power goes out and that is the reason 
why MCI loosing power confuses me.  I am pretty sure that someone at MCI 
also realizes why the blackout happens and how fragile things are.

It is irresponsible for a Tier 1 infrastructure provider to not be able to 
generate their own and have large chunks of their network fail do to the 
inability to power it. I bet you every SBC CO in the affected area was 
still pushing power out to customer prems.

Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider 
could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with 
proper operations and engineering.

JD

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:

>
>> Not sure I understand how on earth something like this happens... power
> is
>> not that confusing to make sure it does not stop working.
>
> Is that so?
>
> Have you read the report on the Northeast blackout of 2003?
> https://reports.energy.gov/
>
> --Michael Dillon
>