[Outages-discussion] [outages] Level3 VoIP Issues?

Jay Hennigan jay at west.net
Tue Oct 4 14:16:55 EDT 2016


[Moved to outages-discussion]

On 10/4/16 10:35 AM, Mike Castoro via Outages wrote:
> Unofficially, I'm hearing that the Level 3 voice outage was caused by a "fire at a large switching center caused by a major fiber cut"

...with sunspots?

Which large switching center and what else was impacted?

How does a fiber cut cause a fire? I can see it going the other way but 
that would technically be a fiber melt.

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