<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Start considering a lead roof!<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 02/02/2009, at 10:22 PM, Steven Lisson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>So when do we get told equipment is offline due to 'solar flares'?<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>[<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>] On Behalf Of David Hughes<br>Sent: Monday, 2 February 2009 9:35 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:td_miles@yahoo.com">td_miles@yahoo.com</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>; Ben Cornish<br>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD<br><br><br>Absolutely. Hard to imagine a datacentre of any repute that relies on <br>"Commercial Power". If Optus doesn't actually have their own gen sets <br>at Elizabeth St then you'd have to question their commitment to their <br>network and their customers.<br><br><br>David<br>...<br><br><br>On 02/02/2009, at 5:46 PM, Tony wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">If it's the same outgage that has just been resolved, then I thought <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it was power related. The message I got was:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Optus advised that Commercial Power failure in Building in <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Elizabeth St Sydney and they are heading to site with a Generator to <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">supply power for transmission equipment."<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Maybe these recent power issues will cause POP/DC providers to <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">consider their own redundancies and maybe check they work too. We <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">can but hope...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tony.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Ben Cornish <<a href="mailto:Ben.Cornish@brennanit.com.au">Ben.Cornish@brennanit.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">From: Ben Cornish <<a href="mailto:Ben.Cornish@brennanit.com.au">Ben.Cornish@brennanit.com.au</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To: <a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009, 5:12 PM<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Apparently Optus has a Major Fibre Cut between Elizabeth St<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Sydney CBD<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and their Roseberry Exchange.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Affecting half of their CBD ATM network.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">AusNOG mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AusNOG mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br>AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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