>> Well Steven, an outage involving three DS-3s would likely be related
>> to an OC-3 failure (an OC-3 at ~155 megabits/second will carry three
>> DS-3s or just over 2,000 voice channels). I'd guess one of two
>> failure types caused your emotional trauma: Traditional "back hoe
>> fade" or an OC-3 to DS-3 mux went on "time out" for a while.
> A backhoe undoubtedly being operated by Backhoe Bob. Apparently at a
> recent gathering of IT folks involved with the Help America Vote Act
> this was a common refrain.
We call this "BIPL" or "Backhoe-Induced Packet Loss."
scott
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