Cut is isolated... It is in CHI area.. Right outside a carrier known only as "Norlight".. The join appears to be known as the "MidWest Relay".. Several pipes vendors appear to be affected, one of which is CNI, aka "Consolidated McClout" (sp ?) ETR: Initial circuits 1 hour, 30 min.... Remainder ASAP. On site technicians swear that the "Big Hoe" was seen in the area.. Strange tracks have been found, and one technicians appears to have an *actual* recording of the eerie sounds it makes in the middle of the night.... :) Good luck... and enjoy the day everyone. Bradley Reynolds wrote:
IXC communications currently has more than a hundred ds3s cut. The outage started at 0830 CDT on 9/19/98. All ds3s that I have isolated traverse their fibre route between cleveland and downtown chicago. The outage seems to affect the chicago area primarily.
IXC was unable to provide ETR.
On a side-note, if you are in the ameritech service area, ixc's 800 number translation is not working. You get to hear a non-standard 'all circuits are busy'. If you need to reach them, call their austin number 5124273700
BR