Level3 in the Midwest is KIA

Fri Jan 25 06:02:56 UTC 2008

Ah, that old-age problem of designing redundancy to cover one failure, but
not two.

Frank 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Justin Shore
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:41 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Level3 in the Midwest is KIA

I've been told that there are 2 issues.  One was fiber cut, I believe in
the Houston area.  The second issue was a card failure, also in the
Houston area.  Both failures contributed to a loss on a backbone ring
that covers a portion of the Midwest.  The master ticket number is
2332102 for those who want updates.

Justin

Justin Shore wrote:
>
> L3 dropped us at 13:30CST.  I've been told that whatever happened took
> out everything from KC to Wichita to Little Rock to Houston.  No word on
> the cause and no ETA yet.  They're handing us 37 routes which is a far
> cry from the roughly 237,000 we'd normally get.  I recognize 3 of the
> routes too as routes local to the Wichita area.
>
> FYI
>  Justin
>
>