[Outages] Portland, OR area fiber cuts?

[Kameron Gasso]

Pete Templin wrote:
> One of our vendor/customers has been reporting a fiber cut in the "North 
> Western US Region, affecting major carriers."  Some of their customers 
> may experience loss of Caller ID and/or Long Distance dialing.  Initial 
> report 1441CST showing 4-6 hours until fiber is repaired and a possibly 
> wrong start time of 2330CST.  First follow-up at 1630CST showing 
> estimated 24 hours until fiber is repaired and a start time of 1330CST. 
>   Second follow-up at 1930CST still showing 24 hours to repair, but with 
> a resolution update indicating "Major National Carrier(s) fiber repair 
> teams have been on site splicing the damaged fiber.  The fiber repair is 
> scheduled for completion tonight between 1900CST and 2300CST."

All is well again with our issue; Global Crossing has reportedly
re-spliced the fiber, and states that the length of the outage was
primarily caused by the difficulty in accessing the cable due to the
break being near the banks of the Columbia River.

--Kameron