Time Warner isolates problem

Internet and telephone service for thousands of Southern California homes and businesses went out for more than six hours Sunday, as one of the largest Internet providers grappled with a system-wide failure in its network serving San Diego and large areas in the Los Angeles, Orange County and Palm Springs areas.

The data interruption

Gordon said the data interruption, which he said was intermittent, as well cut telephone service for clients who use a Time-Warner cable or fiber line for bundled Time-Warner dial-tone phone service. VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service like Skype or Vonage was as well affected.

Some two million Southern California businesses and homes subscribe toTime-Warner for cable television, nevertheless the company will not disclose how many ofthem as well rely on the firm for cable or fiber-based Internet or telephoneservice. Gordon said.

The outage came as the East Coast

The outage came as the East Coast was hit by Hurricane Irene, and computer experts have in the past said that nationwide Internet systems can be brought down by single-point failures. No link between the storm and the California failure has been established, Gordon said.