Oregon storms affect trans-pacific traffic
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.html Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has confirmed that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US. Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:51:13PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.html
Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has confirmed that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US. Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
This has hit us too. It's a major PITA and seems to have been handled pretty badly by at least one T1 carrier. We've seen much of the net unreachable due to flapping BGP sessions causing route dampening on a lot of address space in Australia. Hopefully it'll be repaired soon! -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 "I said it was an upgrade. I didn't say it was better."
If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network in dealing with this, or recovering from the storm - let us know. We can probably facilitate some emergency cross connections or if you are connected to our IXP (Any2) nail up sessions for those carriers present within One Wilshire within a few hours. John Savageau Managing Director CRG West, One Wilshire Los Angeles -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Haigh Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:33 PM To: NANOG List Subject: Re: Oregon storms affect trans-pacific traffic On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:51:13PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.htm l
Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has
confirmed
that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US. Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
This has hit us too. It's a major PITA and seems to have been handled pretty badly by at least one T1 carrier. We've seen much of the net unreachable due to flapping BGP sessions causing route dampening on a lot of address space in Australia. Hopefully it'll be repaired soon! -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz@crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 "I said it was an upgrade. I didn't say it was better."
On 05/12/2007, at 9:29 AM, John Savageau wrote:
If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network in dealing with this, or recovering from the storm - let us know. We can probably facilitate some emergency cross connections or if you are connected to our IXP (Any2) nail up sessions for those carriers present within One Wilshire within a few hours.
SCCN have carried out a temporary repair, and services are now restored (ours are, in any case -- Two of our six unprotected STM-4's on SCCN were affected by this, but they're now back) There'll likely be some further outages down the track while the temporary repair is made permanent. But at least the emergency has been mitigated. Sounds like things are pretty bad at Portland, Oregon. Repair took over 24 hours because flooding prevented the splicing crews from getting to the worksite. Ouch. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223
Mark Newton wrote:
On 05/12/2007, at 9:29 AM, John Savageau wrote:
If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network ...
SCCN have carried out a temporary repair, and services are now restored (ours are, in any case -- Two of our six unprotected STM-4's on SCCN were affected by this, but they're now back)
Sounds like things are pretty bad at Portland, Oregon. Repair took over 24 hours because flooding prevented the splicing crews from getting to the worksite. Ouch.
Normally I'd be quiet, but realize that not all news travels, even when it's bad. I don't know whether it's been restored, but last I heard, traffic on I-5 between Portland and Seattle was completely cut off, and traffic was being routed through Yakima (making a 3 hour trip into a 7 hour trip). Oregon is very hard hit. Here's the Washington map; it's bad enough here. http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/ http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/trafficalerts/
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Lynda wrote:
Mark Newton wrote:
On 05/12/2007, at 9:29 AM, John Savageau wrote:
If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network ...
SCCN have carried out a temporary repair, and services are now restored (ours are, in any case -- Two of our six unprotected STM-4's on SCCN were affected by this, but they're now back)
Sounds like things are pretty bad at Portland, Oregon. Repair took over 24 hours because flooding prevented the splicing crews from getting to the worksite. Ouch.
Normally I'd be quiet, but realize that not all news travels, even when it's bad. I don't know whether it's been restored, but last I heard, traffic on I-5 between Portland and Seattle was completely cut off, and traffic was being routed through Yakima (making a 3 hour trip into a 7 hour trip). Oregon is very hard hit. Here's the Washington map; it's bad enough here.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/ http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/trafficalerts/
Lynda - things are grim on the oregon coast: http://www.tripcheck.com/ Lincoln City camaras are off line, but Florence and Newport give you some idea... - Lucy
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