TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Long Beach, CA Network Failure

Long Beach, CA Network Failure

Tim@Backhome.org
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:14:01 -0700

The Los Angeles Times reported this morning (10-19) that a downtown
Verizon central office switch experienced a major failure yesterday.
This had a domino effect that knocked out cellular service in the area
and also expanded to knock out some 150,000 Verizon wireline customers
in the area.

This lasted for several hours. City officials drove to the nearest
radio station to advise them of the problem (no wireline, no cell
service).

I wonder if this cut off all the wireless providers in the area?
Somehow, I suspect it did since they are so interdependant to keep
network costs down.

This is the heart of former GTE-land. The article claimed a disk
drive crashed and the backup wouldn't/couldn't/didn't take over.

The typical hype was that additional police were posted to handle any
potential problems. The heart of Long Beach is a major discontented
ghetto.

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