Worlcom Fiber Cut (Re: Sprint Outages)

MFS Worldcom Fiber Cut

WorldCom has experienced a fiber cut between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore,
MD which is causing outages across multiple U.S. Backbones, in the Northeast
United States. The fiber cut effected approx 533 DS-3's.

According to Worldcom, it will take six hours to restore all the circuits.
(happened approx 10:30am)

Mark E Larson
Senior Network Architect
RUSTnet Engineering