<div>The "good" news is it they must have a backup/protect ring as I have been able to ping our device but with 300+ms ping times and 50% or more packet loss but bad enough its more or less down. </div><div><br></div>
Latest update:<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Information Update: This is Windstream emailing the latest
status of this fiber cut. The splice
crew has arrived onsite and will begin splicing shortly. There is still no ETA at this time. We will provide further updates as they
become available.</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Julian Y Koh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kohster@northwestern.edu" target="_blank">kohster@northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Jan 8, 2013, at 18:30 , Mitch <<a href="mailto:mitpatterson@gmail.com">mitpatterson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Just got confirmation from them of the fiber cut in the area. Any one else seeing services affected? Here is the email(with our circuit and ticket # removed)<br>
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</div>This went down around 2:45pm Central time today. Definitely affecting various sites in Illinois.<br>
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Julian Y. Koh<br>
Manager, Network Transport, Telecommunications and Network Services<br>
Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT)<br>
2001 Sheridan Road #G-166<br>
Evanston, IL 60208<br>
<a href="tel:847-467-5780" value="+18474675780">847-467-5780</a><br>
NUIT Web Site: <<a href="http://www.it.northwestern.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.it.northwestern.edu/</a>><br>
PGP Public Key:<<a href="http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html" target="_blank">http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html</a>><br>
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