West Coast Fiber Cut?

Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber between
Los Angeles and
Washington that was supposed cut this morning?  Our network
is having
gnarly problems through one of our providers and lesser ones
through the
other.  Investigation went on for about 2 hours, whereupon i
finally
received an email from InterNAP talking about the problems
starting at
9:45AM PDT, and being rooted in this fiber cut.  My other
provider has
since told me that it was a Qwest fiber, and that most major
transit
providers were using it.

Anyone heard anything else about this?

Thanks,

Rick Kunkel

Friday, September 29, 2006, 12:29:28 PM, you wrote:

RK> Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber
between Los Angeles and
RK> Washington that was supposed cut this morning?  Our
network is having
RK> gnarly problems through one of our providers and
lesser ones through the
RK> other.  Investigation went on for about 2 hours,
whereupon i finally
RK> received an email from InterNAP talking about the
problems starting at
RK> 9:45AM PDT, and being rooted in this fiber cut.  My
other provider has
RK> since told me that it was a Qwest fiber, and that
most major transit
RK> providers were using it.

RK> Anyone heard anything else about this?


We're seeing circuits down from Sacramento, CA to Redding,
CA at this
time.  AT&T has confirmed 4 OC-48's are cut and 5 OC-3's
to us at this
time.


Regards,

Joe Boyce
---
InterStar, Inc. - Shasta.com Internet
Office: +1 (530) 224-6866 x105
Direct Line: +1 (530) 229-4023
Cellular: +1 (530) 351-4547
Email: jboyceshasta.com

Global crossing is reporting that SBC was horizontal boring
and knocked
out Quest and SBC fiber.  This is 4 km north of Wolden Ave
and Main St.
in Red Bluff, CA.  Qwest has techs on site and they're
digging.

--
~Andy Brezinsky

On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 12:29 -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber
between Los Angeles and
> Washington that was supposed cut this morning?  Our
network is having
> gnarly problems through one of our providers and lesser
ones through the
> other.  Investigation went on for about 2 hours,
whereupon i finally
> received an email from InterNAP talking about the
problems starting at
> 9:45AM PDT, and being rooted in this fiber cut.  My
other provider has
> since told me that it was a Qwest fiber, and that most
major transit
> providers were using it.
> 
> Anyone heard anything else about this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick Kunkel
> 

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:29:28PM -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber
between Los Angeles and
> Washington that was supposed cut this morning?  Our
network is having
> gnarly problems through one of our providers and lesser
ones through the
> other.  Investigation went on for about 2 hours,
whereupon i finally
> received an email from InterNAP talking about the
problems starting at
> 9:45AM PDT, and being rooted in this fiber cut.  My
other provider has
> since told me that it was a Qwest fiber, and that most
major transit
> providers were using it.
> 
> Anyone heard anything else about this?

I haven't heard anything, although we don't use InterNAP for
IP nor
Qwest for transit.  Some of our eastern-bound IP traffic
does head
south (from norcal to socal).

Do you have general timestamps of when the issue began?  And
two
hours to determine a cut is pretty absurd, if you ask me.

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