The sent out the following at 11:36am (Pacific): At 09:40 PDT on Friday, September 8, 2000, Global Center, a Gloabal Crossing company, began experiencing a Network Service Oautage. The cause of this outage is a fiber cut. Our engineers are actively working on it. Some customer sites hosted in or transiting the following location(s) may be affected during this incident: San Francisco, Ca (SFO1) Sunnyvale, Ca (SNV,1,2,3) Kansas City, Mo (KCY1) Another notification will be sent out giving additional information as soon as it becomes available. Global Center ticket #20000908189 has been created to track this outage. If you have questions regarding this email notification, wish to be removed from the customer list or require further assistance, please send Email to 'gc-noc@globalcenter.net' or call 1-800-541-9888, outside the US dial +1-602-416-7187. Please refer to the above ticket number when referring to this incident. Thanks!

-----Original Message----- From: Max Smetannikov [mailto:Max_Smetannikov@ziffdavis.com] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 11:52 AM To: Michael Medwid Cc: Adam Rothschild; NANOG Subject: RE: GBLX Fiber Cut - San Fran or Oakland

did anybody get any kind of confirmation from GlobalCrossing that the cut actually took place?