ISPs hit with power supply failure

London-based colocation site outage forces users offline

A number of ISPs including UUnet and Claranet have been affected by a power failure at colocation outfit Telehouse Europe in Docklands this morning.

Many routing and external sites were affected, leaving customers without internet access and email services which still have not been restored.

Steve Rawlinson, managing director of Claranet UK says he does not know long services will be affected or how many businesses have been hit.

'Claranet engineers restored many of the services by switching them to alternative phase supplies. However Telehouse have now identified the cause of the failure to be a phase supply having burned through and to replace it they need to bring all power down from 12 noon today. As a result we are deliberately powering down to avoid data corruption,' he said earlier today.'

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