RE: Moscow: global power outage
Or maybe one of those upteen bazillion Generators that Soviet Government touted a year or so ago. -----Original Message----- From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@linuxbox.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:30 AM To: Dmitry Kiselev Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Moscow: global power outage Dmitry Kiselev wrote:
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/05/25/blackout.shtml
Regional internet exchange "M9" affected. Most RU networks lost from full view.
I suppose it's time to introduce the concept of a UPS. Gadi.
Or maybe one of those upteen bazillion Generators
Upteen bazillion is not a number. And if you check this BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4578599.stm you will see that generators are available because they used them to get the underground trains into the nearest station in order to evacuate in an orderly fashion
that Soviet Government
The Soviet government was formally dissolved on the 8th of December 1991. On the 26th of December 1991 the Supreme Soviet repealed the declaration that had established the USSR then voted to dissolve itself.
touted a year or so ago.
By my calculations, a year or so ago is *AFTER* the end of the Soviet government. At 14:30 in London, it is still difficult to reach Russian websites (extremely slow) which suggests that although there are still connections into Russia, the main bandwidth circuits are not yet functioning. Yet another example of why it is not a good idea to rely too heavily on any centralized infrastructure or systems. --Michael Dillon
And if you check this BBC news story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4578599.stm you will see that generators are available because they used them to get the underground trains into the nearest station in order to evacuate in an orderly fashion
If you can read Russian, there is a lot more information on the BBC's Russian language page here http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_4578000/4578219.stm The cascading failure affected Moscow and towns as far as 200km south of the city. 95% of people were evacuated from the Metro by 1pm. They are restoring power in phases, hospitals are expected to be running by 3 pm Moscow time. The outage hit the southern half of Moscow and some parts of the northern half of the city. Many traffic signals were down and militia officers were manually directing traffic. No mention of Internet stuff but they do point out that the space flight centre in Korolev was functioning normally. --Michael Dillon
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