Wed Sep 29 14:44:51 PDT 1999 — East/West Internet traffic has been a bit congested today due to a fiber cut which damaged four huge cross country links. About 33 gigabits (768 T3s) worth of fiber connections were severed. We’re seeing some odd re-routing of traffic to the East coast via Europe, and some performance impact. For more info, ZDNet has a story at: