[AusNOG] nextgen and flooding

[David Hughes]

It may be unrelated to the flooding but if their other path is out (due to flooding) the reason for the outage on their second circuit is a bit irrelevant.  Can you post any updates you receive to the list please ?


Thanks

David
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On 12/01/2011, at 5:20 PM, Peter MacGee wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> We’ve just lost an intercapital link with them between Brisbane and Sydney.
> 
> They advised that this is unrelated to the flooding...  No ETA for fix on
> this yet either.
> 
> Cheers,
> Pete.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Adam Brotherson <domske at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:10:08 +1100
> To: Tony <td_miles at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] nextgen and flooding
> 
> Has anyone just lost Nextgen span links? 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Tony <td_miles at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Those who are customers of Nextgen Networks should have already received the
>> advisory, but for those who may not have (or others who are interested):
>> 
>> "Since 10.33am this morning one of our main interstate optical fibre cables
>> has experienced damage near Thagoona, Queensland, due to the severe flooding.
>> The damaged cable and electronics are underwater and are expected to be out of
>> service for at least 2 to 3 days, flood water depending.
>> Nextgen has diverse and geographically separate optical fibre network cables
>> connecting Brisbane and Sydney with automatic switch over."
>> 
>> Full advisory available here:
>> http://www.nextgennetworks.com.au/pdfs/QLD_flood_message_11_1_2011.pdf
>> 
>> 
>> regards,
>> Tony.
>> 
>> (we are hoping that all of the DC's we have gear in at Brisbane have tested
>> generators recently and have plenty of diesel in the tanks !)
>> 
>> 
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