[outages] Level 3 down in Atlanta

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:28:21AM -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
> Looks like it's all back up as of about 30 mins ago.
> 
> Apparently either a core switch or router failed, which took down much of
> their network in Atlanta, as well as Memphis and Nashville.

Level 3 has a single router or switch handling packets at a major POP?
I doubt this, but the outage is confirmation something bad happened.

That said: where's the redundancy, and why didn't it kick in?

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