David Israel wrote:

I am hearing rumors of a fiber cut in New Jersey affecting multiple providers; anybody have any details?

From http://status.cogentco.com/

****************************************************************************** ** Cogent Network Status Report Last Updated Thu Jan 14 12:37:49 2010 ** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Network Status: Warning DNS Servers Status: Normal Dialup/IPASS Status: Normal Mail Servers Status: Normal Webservers Status: Normal Cogent Network Status/DNS Server Status Description: Welcome to Cogent Communications’ Network Status Message. Customers with traffic going through or on the east coast may be experiencing packet loss and higher than normal latency due to a fiber cut in New Jersey. Splice crews are at the site. There is no ETR at this time. The Cogent ticket to reference for this issue is HD2082680. A separate issue has been identified for customers in Toronto and Chicago. This appears to be a routing issue and the Cogent NOC is looking into the problem. There is no ETR at this time. The Cogent ticket to reference for this issue is HD2082851

Cogent has a master ticket for this 2082851 we saw some reachability issues between 12 and 1 Eastern today due to this problem On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David Israel <davei@usmd.edu> wrote:

I am hearing rumors of a fiber cut in New Jersey affecting multiple providers; anybody have any details?

-- David Israel Senior IT Network Engineer University System of Maryland Email: davei@usmd.edu Phone: 301.445.2768

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