Fiber cut in SF area

Wed Apr 15 01:26:10 UTC 2009

Roy wrote:
> JC Dill wrote:
>   
>> I'm pretty sure the WISPs in the Santa Cruz and Gilroy/Morgan Hill
>> areas were all also taken offline due to the fiber cut.  (Roy, can you
>> verify, for south county?)  Anyone in those areas who relied on a WISP
>> as a backup to their fiber/copper link found that their "redundant"
>> system wasn't really redundant after all.
>>     
> It based on where the WISP fiber feed was located but in general they
> were all down.  There were some special edge cases that stayed up fed
> from distant mountain tops.
>
> It didn't seem to matter who your upstream ISP was, they were all gone.
>   

The little residential wireless provider I use (http://surfnetc.com/) in 
Santa Cruz county stayed up the whole time.  I was surprised.  (Looks 
like their uplink is via pnap (Internap).)

-- 
Tony Rall