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  1. The #NANOG mailing list discussed an outage of #Cogent in #Texas. The company's update: "This is being caused by multiple fiber cuts".

    Must be lots of stuff going on, if multiple fiber cuts appeared at the same time. Anyone ideas what could have caused it?

    #outage #networking #bgp

  2. The #NANOG mailing list discussed an outage of #Cogent in #Texas. The company's update: "This is being caused by multiple fiber cuts".

    Must be lots of stuff going on, if multiple fiber cuts appeared at the same time. Anyone ideas what could have caused it?

    #outage #networking #bgp

  3. Spent a full week trying to get answers from #Cogent about what #T5 is doing with power maintenance & setting up our dual feed power.
    Me: Are you supplying the PDUs?
    Them...
    Them...
    Them the day before: No. You are.
    Me: YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!
    Scramble scramble FOUND!
    Me: You'll be there to hook it up.
    Them: No. You're doing that.
    Me: So i have authorization to lift the floor & energize our PDUs?
    Them: Yes, but you dont need to, because you are on the line that isnt going down.
    #sysadmin

  4. Spent a full week trying to get answers from #Cogent about what #T5 is doing with power maintenance & setting up our dual feed power.
    Me: Are you supplying the PDUs?
    Them...
    Them...
    Them the day before: No. You are.
    Me: YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!
    Scramble scramble FOUND!
    Me: You'll be there to hook it up.
    Them: No. You're doing that.
    Me: So i have authorization to lift the floor & energize our PDUs?
    Them: Yes, but you dont need to, because you are on the line that isnt going down.
    #sysadmin

  5. @kwf that reminds me of news stories that #DTAG abusing #Cogent & #Level3 as #Upstreams and refusing to upgrade the bandwiths, causing #PacketLoss and instable connectivity out of their #ego not wanting to peer at #DECIX and have properly sized ports.

    This even went into lawsuit filings, but propably got pulled due to arbitration.

    After all, I remember colleagues saying one should not exceed 30-50% of the network capacity prior to upgrading just to have enough breathing room.