Re: Another fiber cut in Maryland?

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Thu, 09 August 2001, up () 3 am wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > Its either the continuation, or a new fiber cut in Maryland
> > between Baltimore and Washington DC this afternoon in addition
> > to the one this morning.
> From UUnet's NOC site:
>
> A fiber cut in Relay MD affecting service in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
> Currently there is no time to repair.

Apparently one of the fiber cuts today caught a large bandwidth consumer
located at Ft. Meade in Maryland.  I wonder if they paid for physically
diverse routing?