[AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD

[Steven Lisson]

So when do we get told equipment is offline due to 'solar flares'?

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of David Hughes
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2009 9:35 PM
To: td_miles at yahoo.com
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net; Ben Cornish
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD


Absolutely.  Hard to imagine a datacentre of any repute that relies on  
"Commercial Power".  If Optus doesn't actually have their own gen sets  
at Elizabeth St then you'd have to question their commitment to their  
network and their customers.


David
...


On 02/02/2009, at 5:46 PM, Tony wrote:

> If it's the same outgage that has just been resolved, then I thought  
> it was power related. The message I got was:
>
> "Optus advised that Commercial Power failure in  Building in  
> Elizabeth St Sydney and they are heading to site with a Generator to  
> supply power for transmission equipment."
>
> Maybe these recent power issues will cause POP/DC providers to  
> consider their own redundancies and maybe check they work too. We  
> can but hope...
>
>
>
> regards,
> Tony.
>
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 2/2/09, Ben Cornish <Ben.Cornish at brennanit.com.au> wrote:
>
>> From: Ben Cornish <Ben.Cornish at brennanit.com.au>
>> Subject: [AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD
>> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
>> Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009, 5:12 PM
>> Apparently Optus has a Major Fibre Cut between Elizabeth St
>> Sydney CBD
>> and their Roseberry Exchange.
>>
>>
>>
>> Affecting half of their CBD ATM network.
>>
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