Interesting how quietly one of the powerhouses in Europe has been shut
down yesterday evening. Any notes on increased latency / routing issues
wrt AS286 shutdown?
--kauto
Kauto Huopio - kauto.huopio@ficora.fi
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Does anyone know what happened to the Ebone/KPNQWEST European-wide DWDM
system? I figure that if it was shut down, we would see more impact.
Their IP network load I bet was quite easily handled by other operators
considering the huge over-capacity situation we have had the past years.
Does anyone know what happened to the Ebone/KPNQWEST European-wide DWDM
system? I figure that if it was shut down, we would see more impact.
It's beeing sold off in pices.
Their IP network load I bet was quite easily handled by other operators
considering the huge over-capacity situation we have had the past years.
Uhm, how many pan-European _fiber_ owners is there? Not that many. Most of that over capacity was bought from KQ in Europe...
Keep in mind that this is a game where everyone is dependent on everybody else. There isn't that much actual diverse fiber out there...
- kurtis -
Contributory cause?
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1234733
(Quick summary - Worldcom accused of contributing to the Internet bubble
by overstating traffic growth)
On a much quieter note, how many people noticed that AS1673
and 140.223/16 disappeared a few weeks ago?
It looks like Worldcom actually managed to integrate
something! (Just before they finish going out of business, too...)
--msa
FYI we have still got BGP with KPN and all routes look okay (from London).. no
evidence of this shutdown as yet, perhaps it was only a couple of sections?
Steve
We have lost connectivity from them since last friday.
If you send an email to their NOC you will get an autoreply saying:
"The KPNQwest Network Operations Center was CLOSED on 19/07/2002.... "
As everybody knew they did have a really proactive and responsive NOC.
It is sad to see things like thi happen. 
Cheers
German
"The KPNQwest Network Operations Center was CLOSED on 19/07/2002.... "
As everybody knew they did have a really proactive and responsive NOC.
It is sad to see things like thi happen.
indeed. it's rare these days that a noc is given enough budget and authority
to do a good job. as286 predated the dotcom boom (and bust) by a lot of years
and was a fine bunch of folks from the earliest days to the final days.
it's really sad to see a successful enterprise swept up by a boom/bust cycle.
(i guess anybody who was able to cash out their equity from the kpn/qwest deal
saw it as a good thing, but older customers probably wish it hadn't happened.)