[outages] Cogent outage Chicago area

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Outage appears to be related to a manhole fire:

"""
http://status.cogentco.com
Welcome to the Cogent Communications status page. At this time 4:15 PM
04/16/2012 some of our Chicago customers may be experiencing loss of
service due to a manhole fire which has damaged power, phone and fiber
cable. Our fiber vendor has given us a best case ETR of Tuesday evening.
The Master ticket for this priority issue is HD5080477.
"""

John

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:10:11AM -0500, Andres Herrera wrote:
> Adam, I can see the Civic Opera building from my office, its right in front
> of me, but i'm on the other side of the river.
> 
> My ticket with Cogent was updated and a faulty fiber link underneath the
> river is what is causing the outage.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Adam Leff <adam at leff.co> wrote:
> 
> > I have Cogent internet service in the Civic Opera Building.  Our service
> > is functioning without issue (for now...).
> >
> > ~Adam
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Andres Herrera <aher85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The issue is a local problem in Cogent ring around the North branch
> >> Chicago river that now is also involving ComEd. According to Cogent,
> >> customers affected are only those near the north branch Chicago river near
> >> the loop. Can anyone in Cogent confirm this?
> >>
> >> Andres
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Andres Herrera <aher85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Outage started at 11:58 pm CST last night. Just got confirmation from
> >>> Cogent. No ETA on when this would be fixed.
> >>>
> >>> Andres
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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