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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/051607-cisco-routers-major-outage-japan.html
By Jim Duffy
Network World
05/16/07
Cisco routers were the source of a major outage May 15 in an NTT network
in Japan, according to an investment firm bulletin.
Between 2,000 and 4,000 Cisco routers went down for about 7 hours in the
NTT East network after a switchover to backup routes triggered the
routers to rewrite routing tables, according to a bulletin from CIBC
World Markets. The outage disconnected millions of broadband Internet
users across most of eastern Japan.
Cisco says it could not say which specific router models were involved.
"Cisco is working closely with NTT East to identify the specific cause
of the outage and help prevent future occurrences,=E2=80=9D a Cisco spokesman
said in an e-mailed reply. =E2=80=9CAt this time, Cisco and NTT have not
determined the specific cause of the problem."
NTT East and NTT West, both group companies of Japanese telecom giant
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), are in the process of finalizing
their decisions on a core router upgrade, according to the report.
The routing table rewrite overflowed the routing tables and caused the
routers=E2=80=99 forwarding process to fail, the CIBC report states.
=E2=80=9CClearly, this failure doesn't reflect well on (Cisco) and at the very
least highlights the need for two vendors,=E2=80=9D states CIBC analyst Ittai
Kidron in the report. Kidron states that NTT West is evaluating Juniper
core routers while East evaluates the Cisco platforms.
=E2=80=9CThat said, we don't expect the failure at NTT East to influence its
decision with respect to its choice of core router vendor,=E2=80=9D Kidron
states in the bulletin. =E2=80=9CIn fact, as router capacity was partly
responsible for the failure, it is possible the outage could accelerate
NTT's transition to Cisco's newer core router, the CRS-1.=E2=80=9D
NTT was one of the initial testers of the CRS-1 when the product was
launched three years ago.
=E2=80=9CWe don't believe the decisions would change based on this event,=E2=80=9D
Kidron concluded. =E2=80=9CJuniper still remains a leading contender at NTT West
and Cisco at NTT East.=E2=80=9D
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