[outages] Level 3 down in Atlanta

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- "Jeremy Chadwick" <outages at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> 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?

Oh; you're *always* asking that.

:-)

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Cheers,
-- jra

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