[Outages-discussion] Unsignificant outages (was:NYC - PINCH)

[Jay Hennigan]

On 9/20/16 12:30 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> In the same spirit, can some more guidance be issued to reduce the
> noise of non-significant outages.   Is a single fiber cut really that
> much of an impact in 2016, or is it really just a normal and expected
> event that routing was designed to deal with?

It was for Cogent in the Los Angeles market on Monday. Routing dealt 
with it, but it was pretty nasty for several hours.

LAX -> Singapore -> Hong Kong -> Japan -> Seattle -> Phoenix is ugly, 
with major packet loss.

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