[AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

And people mock me when I want to put a roll of tin foil up in the  
office with folding instructions!

Maybe AUSNOG3 needs a Tin Foil Hat Appreciation morning?

MMC

On 02/02/2009, at 10:41 PM, Bevan Slattery wrote:

> Or a tin foil hat...
>
> [b]
>
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> ] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:54 PM
> To: Steven Lisson
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net; Ben Cornish
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD
>
> Start considering a lead roof!
>
>
> On 02/02/2009, at 10:22 PM, Steven Lisson wrote:
>
>> So when do we get told equipment is offline due to 'solar flares'?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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-- 
Matthew Moyle-Croft Internode/Agile Peering and Core Networks
Level 5, 162 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia
Email: mmc at internode.com.au    Web: http://www.on.net
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