Cogent norther california fiber cut -- details?

Sat May 14 12:33:01 UTC 2005

John van Oppen wrote:
> Anyone know anything about the Fiber cut that took Cogent's Seattle POP
> out of commission at about 6 PM (PST) today?   

AboveNet reported a fiber cut at 1852PDT which they believe to be in the 
Sacramento area.  Oddly enough, we saw a regular stream of ~5000 BGP 
update messages received every five minutes from 2230CDT to 0330CDT; 
I've asked if this was related to the fiber cut but haven't gotten a reply.

pt