17 Jul
1997
17 Jul
'97
3:40 p.m.
MFS Worldcom Fiber Cut WorldCom has experienced a fiber cut between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD which is causing outages across multiple U.S. Backbones, in the Northeast United States. The fiber cut effected approx 533 DS-3's. According to Worldcom, it will take six hours to restore all the circuits. (happened approx 10:30am) Mark E Larson Senior Network Architect RUSTnet Engineering ----------------------------------------------- R U S T N E T I N C. A member of the Verio Group http://www.rust.net -----------------------------------------------