Re: NAP building

[Bill Unsworth <bill () u-net net>]

Roll on the second UK exchange point - MaNAP (should be
operational June/July), but I fail to see what all this
has to do with Nanog.

Bill


At 09:20 AM 09-05-97 +0100, you wrote:
> > In a previous message Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > > Make sure it isn't Telehouse though! Someone at Telehouse London pressed
> > > the wrong button and took out the entire power to the south side of
> > > the building, nearly ever ISP in the UK, and the LINX too, was knocked
> > > out for around 45 minutes today.
> >
> > Sorry, only UK ISPs that are careless enough to route *all* their
International
> > connectivity thru Telehouse were "knocked out" - We, and various others
ONLY
> > lost connectivity to those customers with a single line to our equipment
> > in Telehouse.
> > UK->UK traffic (to those other ISPs that survived) just re-routed
> > through Stockholm, Amsterdam, USA etc etc etc
>
> OK Richard, All ISP's where affected then, the point is Telehouse is a
disaster
> zone and there is way too much UK [and European too] traffic passing through,
> the bulding.
>
> > Sorry, Telehouse has a *much* better power record than most places I know -
> > some of the US mae's dont even have mains backup supply.
>
> Well you are a nutcase for plugging into a MAE ;)
>
> THe point is Telehouse claim this mondo wonderful power resiliance and its
> just not true.
>
> FYI: I was standing in the 1st floor ops room and watched everything go off,
> YES THATS RIGHT! The management system that Telehouse use went off too!
> so they didn't have a clue where the fault was! [eggs basket one springs to
> mind].
>
> Cheers,
> Neil.
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