http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.html
Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has confirmed that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US. Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
This has hit us too. It's a major PITA and seems to have been handled pretty
badly by at least one T1 carrier. We've seen much of the net unreachable
due to flapping BGP sessions causing route dampening on a lot of address
space in Australia. Hopefully it'll be repaired soon!
If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network in
dealing with this, or recovering from the storm - let us know. We can
probably facilitate some emergency cross connections or if you are
connected to our IXP (Any2) nail up sessions for those carriers present
within One Wilshire within a few hours.
John Savageau
Managing Director
CRG West, One Wilshire
Los Angeles
SCCN have carried out a temporary repair, and services are now restored
(ours are, in any case -- Two of our six unprotected STM-4's on SCCN were
affected by this, but they're now back)
There'll likely be some further outages down the track while the temporary
repair is made permanent. But at least the emergency has been mitigated.
Sounds like things are pretty bad at Portland, Oregon. Repair took over
24 hours because flooding prevented the splicing crews from getting to
the worksite. Ouch.
- mark
Mark Newton wrote:
If there is anything we at One Wilshire can do to assist any network ...
SCCN have carried out a temporary repair, and services are now restored
(ours are, in any case -- Two of our six unprotected STM-4's on SCCN were
affected by this, but they're now back)
Sounds like things are pretty bad at Portland, Oregon. Repair took over
24 hours because flooding prevented the splicing crews from getting to
the worksite. Ouch.
Normally I'd be quiet, but realize that not all news travels, even when it's bad. I don't know whether it's been restored, but last I heard, traffic on I-5 between Portland and Seattle was completely cut off, and traffic was being routed through Yakima (making a 3 hour trip into a 7 hour trip). Oregon is very hard hit. Here's the Washington map; it's bad enough here.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/trafficalerts/
Lynda -
things are grim on the oregon coast: http://www.tripcheck.com/
Lincoln City camaras are off line, but Florence and Newport give you some
idea...
- Lucy