[outages] Level 3 Fiber Cut in Chicago

Jeremy Chadwick outages at jdc.parodius.com
Thu May 19 18:39:34 EDT 2011


My workplace also lost a long-haul circuit this morning (at 07:41 PDT),
via XO, who states that the issue is a fibre cut between St. Louis and
Chicago, or more specifically a "severely damaged fibre duct", and
currently has a ticket open with Level 3 on the matter.  Definitely
related.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
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On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 05:40:43PM -0400, David Swafford wrote:
> FYI -- We lost a 1gig metro link this morning on Level3 (PHY is up,
> but fails to pass traffic), and it turns out that Level 3 had a major
> fiber cut in the Chicago area that took down 85-WDM waves.  No ETA has
> been provided as of this afternoon.
> 
> David.
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