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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>And an article that ties the two incidents together:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><a href="http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/atts-internet-wireless-service-disrupted-fiber-cut-gilroy-calif/2013-04-17">http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/atts-internet-wireless-service-disrupted-fiber-cut-gilroy-calif/2013-04-17</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>This my last posting on this topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Outages-discussion [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Bulk<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> outages-discussion@outages.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Fiber Cut in SF Bay Area<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Here’s the other article:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/capitola/ci_23040335/at-t-customers-cut-off-by-outage">http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/capitola/ci_23040335/at-t-customers-cut-off-by-outage</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Outages-discussion [<a href="mailto:outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org">mailto:outages-discussion-bounces@outages.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Bulk<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org">outages-discussion@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Fiber Cut in SF Bay Area<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>News coverage here: <a href="http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_23038054/internet-outage-linked-san-jose-transformer-vandalism">http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_23038054/internet-outage-linked-san-jose-transformer-vandalism</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note the competitor’s comments. =)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure if this fiber was a mixture of a local loop and transport, but from the affected services, it looks like there definitely was a transport component where customers didn’t have a ring topology to protect them from a cut like this. Perhaps some circuits were built redundantly and this was just one path, but we’ll never know. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Outages [<a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org">mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Glover<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] Fiber Cut in SF Bay Area<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Mitch,<br><br>Yep that is exactly what I see in Megapath CONNECT as well for our myriad of Gilroy circuits..<br><br>From what I have gathered from various news outlets and other mailing lists, a power substation in San Jose was vandalized, along with fiber that runs nearby it. HAZMAT had to get the sub-station vandalism cleaned up before AT&T could get in to start splicing. <br><br>-Robert <br><br>On 04/16/2013 11:01 AM, Mitch wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is all I have from Megapath: <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Description:</b><br>We are currently experiencing a service interruption due to equipment failure at the GLRYCAXF central office in San Jose, CA.<br><br><b>UPDATE: </b>Megapath NOC is still following up with Carrier/ ILEC to resolve the fibercut issue in their network. No ETR available. <br><br><b>Master TT number: </b>5303870<br><b>Severity Level: </b>P1<br><b>Total End-Users Affected: </b>1<br><b>Start Time: </b>04/16/2013 01:15:00 AM PDT<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Robert Glover <<a href="mailto:robertg@garlic.com" target="_blank">robertg@garlic.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<br><br>I've got confirmed reports (from Cogent and Megapath) that there is a fiber cut affecting service through the South Bay. We have Cogent fiber circuits down in Campbell and San Martin. In San Martin, landlines have no dialtone and AT&T cell phones have no service whatsoever. All calls to Gilroy landlines are failing to All Circuits Busy.<br><br><br>Anyone have any further details? The issue seems to have started around 1:00am PDT or so.<br><br>-Robert<br>_______________________________________________<br>Outages mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Outages@outages.org" target="_blank">Outages@outages.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>