MCI Severed fiberoptic lines yesterday

Falrick writes "Yesterday, MCI reportedly faced several severed fiberoptic lines running along on the East Coast of the US. Evidentaly the fibers were located somewhere in the Bronx, and, as posted in the ZDNet Article, were able to reroute packet trafic around the area by splicing in fresh lines. Some ISP's were reporting over 88% packet loss. "