[outages] Level 3 down in Atlanta

[Paul Corrao]

We saw the problem and we have redundant connections to Level 3 in  
Atlanta..........


On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Bill Wichers wrote:

> It's possible the faulty device was an aggregation router and only  
> those customers connected to it saw the outage. Redundancy within  
> Level(3)'s network would not have helped customers with only a  
> single connection off the affected device. At some point it becomes  
> the customer's responsibility to redundantly connect to their  
> upstreams (as in buy two connections on different aggregation  
> routers :-).
>
> I didn't see any L3 issues up here in Detroit, so whatever outage L3  
> had was apparently contained within that one POP or region. No  
> cascade failures I can see...
>
>   -Bill
>
> > 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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