[Outages-discussion] Fwd: Re: [outages] FW: Manhole fire, Pittsburgh PA

Bill Wichers billw at waveform.net
Wed May 9 21:44:34 EDT 2012


Sounds to me like they had a fiber cut on a long haul link and it took them awhile to localize it. LH links are harder to tdr than are metro links.


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Subject: [Outages-discussion] Fwd: Re: [outages] FW: Manhole fire,Pittsburgh PA

Anyone here speak English?  Or manage the list?  Or own pantaloons?
You get the idea.

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> From: "Carol E. Sarver" <sarver.carol at gmail.com>
> To: Jeremy Chadwick <outages at jdc.parodius.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 19:40:36 -0400
> Reply-To: "Carol E. Sarver" <cesarver at maximumcomm.com>
> Subject: Re: [outages] FW: Manhole fire, Pittsburgh PA
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> I don't I'm suosed to be on this list.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Chadwick"
> <outages at jdc.parodius.com>
> To: "Chris Wright" <cjwright at gmail.com>
> Cc: <outages at outages.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [outages] FW: Manhole fire, Pittsburgh PA
> 
> 
> >It's affecting, bare minimum, Abovenet.  Given the relationship between
> >Abovenet and L3 (for physical transport), I'm not surprised they're both
> >affected.
> >
> >We were told initially it was "a fiber cut in Albany, NY", then
> >"a fiber event near New Platz, NY", and now "a fiber outage in Suffern,
> >NY".  So based on this, it's probably a fiber cut in Bolivia.
> >
> >-- 
> >| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
> >| UNIX Systems Administrator                http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
> >| Mountain View, CA, US                                            |
> >| Making life hard for others since 1977.             PGP 4BD6C0CB |
> >
> >On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:08:59PM -0400, Chris Wright wrote:
> >>There is a fiber cut in Suffern, NY.  I'm not sure which carriers it is
> >>affecting.
> >>
> >>-Chris
> >>
> >>
> >>On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Towne <jtowne at slic.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anyone heard anything else about this?  I've been having issues on
> >>> Level3
> >>> in upstate NY all day.
> >>>
> >>> -- Jonathan Towne
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:52:19PM -0500, Frank Bulk scribbled:
> >>> # FYI
> >>> #
> >>> # -----Original Message-----
> >>> # From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:streiner at cluebyfour.org]
> >>> # Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:37 AM
> >>> # To: nanog at nanog.org
> >>> # Subject: Manhole fire, Pittsburgh PA
> >>> #
> >>> # There was a manhole/electrical vault fire this morning in
> >>Pittsburgh > on
> >>> # Fifth Ave in the Oakland area.  Numerous telcos/dark fiber providers
> >>> # affected (Level3, Verizon, DQE Communications, Fibertech Networks,
> >>> # possibly others).  Initial outage accurred at about 03:15 EDT today.
> >>> # Current restoration estimate is 15:00-16:00 EDT today.
> >>> #
> >>> # jms
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