"Call Before You Dig" Article: [Was Re: Cogent norther california fiber cut -- details?]

[Frank Coluccio]

Pete, All,

This may be slightly OT, but I thought it would be of interest to many here, just
the same:

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=21324247

Comments concerning live outage reporting from Sean Donelan and others who've
stayed on top of outage and D/R matters would be appreciated, either on list or
off. TIA.

Frank A. Coluccio
DTI Consulting Inc.
212-857-8150 Office
347-526-6788 Mobile

On Sat May 14  7:33 , Pete Templin  sent:

>
>John van Oppen wrote:
>> Anyone know anything about the Fiber cut that took Cogent's Seattle POP
>> out of commission at about 6 PM (PST) today?   
>
>AboveNet reported a fiber cut at 1852PDT which they believe to be in the 
>Sacramento area.  Oddly enough, we saw a regular stream of ~5000 BGP 
>update messages received every five minutes from 2230CDT to 0330CDT; 
>I've asked if this was related to the fiber cut but haven't gotten a reply.
>
>pt