Re: MAE West news

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

The word I am hearing from UUNET about current problems are due to 
a fiber cut "on the west coast".


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> >MAE West Down a Second Time
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> >By Randy Barrett
> >	Power failed at the Metropolitan Access Exchange West on the morning of
> >July 16, the second time an outage has crippled the major peering point in
> >less than a week.
> >	At 8:17am PST, a 100-amp breaker failed and cut power to the number one
> >giga switch at the MFS/WorldCom portion of MAE West. WorldCom Inc.
> >(www.wcom.com) officials said electricity was restored by 9:06am.
> >	During the outage, all Internet service providers peering with MFS at the
> >site experienced difficulties handing off data packets, said WorldCom
> >spokesperson Linda Laughlin.
> >	"The providers on the MFS side were killed," said Rob Bowman, director of
> >engineering for Exodus Communications Inc. (www.exodus.net).
> >	On July 11 a similar outage occurred after a construction crew at the site
> >accidentally shorted out power. That caused a major slow down in Internet
> >traffic on the west coast, particularly for small providers who were not
> >‘multi-homed"—or using two backbone providers.
> >	MAE West is run cooperatively by NASA Ames Research Center and MFS
> >Communications Co. Network operators reported the NASA side of MAE West was
> >not affected by the power failure.
> >	Laughlin said WorldCom was flying several power engineers to the site to
> >evaluate the electrical situation.
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