all things cbl

.. what I wouldn’t give for one.

Bad Part #1:
Last night about 12.20am my phone rang with alerts about T1 customers being down. Came to find out that some idiot drove a car into a power pole on Dixie Drive just south of our Datacenter. Turns out that the power went out for a big part of the city until they could reroute it.

Good Part #1: Generator works fine and kept us up for the hour or so the power was out. 80% is our propane level.

Bad Part #2:
Unfortunately, Interlinx fiber was among that which was cut when the pole got hit. That means that no Broadwing connection for us, nor our 100 meg agg circuit to Tonaquint. Our customer base on the 100 meg agg can’t get to us.. so they’re without ‘net. What’s weird is that this went down around 4am.. perhaps that’s when they pull the stuff off of the hit pole? Who knows.

Good Part #2: Interlinx is splicing fiber outside of our datacenter to get us back on the net. This will put us on the other half of the ring they have in STG. Later this week we’ll work on getting STP setup so this wont happen again.