Apparently there is a lot of confusion about where the cut is. ATT was saying they were trying to determine if it was Abovenet fibre or level3 leased fibre that was leased by Abovenet.

To add that there is now speculation that there is more than one outage, as locally the SF/SAC outage should not affect the areas south of San Francisco.

Update The news reports are wrong, the outage was at 4am according to the NOC. There is only one cut and it is in Redwood City. Emergency Services are getting priority which is why a call to ATT got the reply, "The police are on site." Which is not a figure of speech. Also it is not a level3 cut.

Update II ATT on twitter apologizing; "CA customers: We apologize for any inconvenience this morning's service outage has caused. We are working on a repair." and "A customers: We are aware of a cable cut situation impacting services in Santa Clara and San Jose areas." Twitter search on fibre cut.

Update III Terrorism! (vandalism). Apparently four cables were cut.

San Jose police are investigating the cutting of four underground fiber optic cables that disrupted phone service to southern Santa Clara County and parts of Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.The cables were located ten feet down a manhole at southbound Monterey Highway at Blossom Hill in South San Jose.

Kids these days.

Update IV Video of the fiber that was cut on sfgate.

Update V Two cuts. One at 2am at San Jose, and one at 4am in San Carlos that cuts Sprint's lines.

Update VI Apparently splicing has begun and will continue over the next five hours (2:00pm Phoenix time on) until all the fiber is reterminated.

Update VII At 3:49pm we are back online and all connected up.