colocation12
05-14-2003, 01:37 AM
In case anyone was wondering what happened in Boston today..
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=33680
Allegiance, a national local exchange carrier (NLEC) serving 36 states across the U.S., initially blamed Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board) for the outage, which disabled Byte and Switch -- and its sister publications Light Reading, Unstrung, and Boardwatch -- for most of the business day. The Boston Globe Website was also down all day, as was Infonetics Research Inc. and many other firms in the Boston area.
After a day full of finger-pointing, Allegiance finally admitted that the problem was theirs to solve and explain. "It turns out it wasn’t Level 3, or MCI, or Genuity Inc., as we had initially thought, but a giant piling that fell on our mega POP at 450 D Street in Boston,” says Jerry Ostergaard, director of public relations at Allegiance. The piling apparently cut four OC48 links.
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=33680
Allegiance, a national local exchange carrier (NLEC) serving 36 states across the U.S., initially blamed Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT - message board) for the outage, which disabled Byte and Switch -- and its sister publications Light Reading, Unstrung, and Boardwatch -- for most of the business day. The Boston Globe Website was also down all day, as was Infonetics Research Inc. and many other firms in the Boston area.
After a day full of finger-pointing, Allegiance finally admitted that the problem was theirs to solve and explain. "It turns out it wasn’t Level 3, or MCI, or Genuity Inc., as we had initially thought, but a giant piling that fell on our mega POP at 450 D Street in Boston,” says Jerry Ostergaard, director of public relations at Allegiance. The piling apparently cut four OC48 links.