I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept going out

Mon Jan 30 01:27:32 UTC 2006

Martin Hannigan wrote:

> They could've back doored the long haul, and it's possible they
> did on different products. The local traffic would pop back if
> they did depending upon network configuration since the FCP's
> and CO's are still up and running. Think about it, if you can
> make a phone call during a fiber cut, why can't you process an
> IP packet? (I'm discussing layer 1. I'm waiting to see the preso
> in Dallas to comment on anything higher :) )

Well, sometimes you can't make a phone call during a fiber cut.
During the Sprint outage a couple of weeks ago the first thing
we noticed were strange PSTN outages.  High-and-dry and reorder
for the most part with an occasional "circuits busy" intercept.
The cut didn't have any significant effect on IP as far as we
could tell (but we're not a Sprint customer).

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