>> Some time ago, there was a
network outage that impaired communication between
Microsoft's Redmond campus and the data center in
Quincy, Washington. The usual email went
out talking about, oh, we have an emergency
network outage. We've provisioned some
emergency bandwidth, however, bandwidth is
still going to be limited. We suggest that if you have things that can consume
a lot of bandwidth, maybe you postpone them
until the outage is over. So far your typical
network outage email. The interesting part was, at the end of the email when they explained why there was an outage, and the explanation was, one of the fiber
cables was damaged by a hunter shooting at a
pheasant near the power lines. This was the time we had a network outage caused by
unexpected hunter activity. When you're setting up your systems, just make sure you're prepared
because really anything can happen.