Bruce Klopfenstein <klopfens@andy.bgsu.edu> (06/13/91)
> Jan. 4., 1991. An AT&T construction crew in New Jersey mistakenly > cracks a single fiber-optic cable. The cable is the width of a > person's thumb. The crack halts 60 percent of AT&T's long-distance > calls to New York City. Aviation control centers are paralyzed, > causing gridlock in the skies throughout the Northeast. I heard at a conference that this is not true. The actual reason was a bug in a software upgrade to a telco switch that shut down other switches. Was this ever covered on this list? Thanks. [Moderator's Note: We had mention of it here, but the cable failure was the reason given. Your allegation is the first time I recall hearing any other reason for the outage earlier this year. PAT]