Did Verizon Cut a Cable?
(Looking for initial cause of massive outage)

Here is what I have read:

Quote from VDI:

"This morning at 9:14am EST, Verizon had an OC-12 outage in the Clifton, New Jersey area. This OC-12 provided VDI with their connectivity to various providers such as Level3 and UUNET. Verizon was on location with in 2 hours to correct the problem with the OC-12 multiplexor. Once the OC-12 was restored, connectivity to Level3 and UUNET would not come up properly. "

(I know that VDI had it's own problems by having a Cisco
card go out, but I am more concerned about what caused
the Verizon outage)

Thanks,

David Copeland