Scott Drassinower wrote:
At 1pm, MCI WorldCom had all MFS service restored that was in or passed through White Plains. It turns out it wasn't a fiber cut.
The building they are located in (One North Broadway, which in addition to being a regular office tower includes POPs for pre-WorldCom MCI, MFS, and seemingly Nextel) was having electrical work performed by the building management. They had to shut down the entire building's power to get this work done. I stopped by at 12pm, and the building's security guards said management notified tenants last month they they would have no electricity on 10/9.
At 7 or 8am the power went off, and the MFS batteries failed at 9am.
There's this neat device called a generator... Guess MCI Worldcom never heard of 'em... Gotta wonder what they do during blizzards and other such natural disasters. Relying solely on batteries, and having only an hour or two of capacity seems rather foolhardy... Now, to be fair, if electrical work was being done in the building, it is possible any backup generators that did exist were also turned off while the work was being performed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie dts@senie.com Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranthnetworks.com