UPDATED: Internet service to be disrupted for some on Saturday

Published 5:16 am Friday, September 26, 2008

Customers of OlyPen, Capacity Provisioning Inc., and Olympus Net will

not experience a disruption of service when Bonneville Power

Administration relocates a fiber broadband line outside of Shelton on

Saturday.

Those companies have redundancy through other cable paths off the North

Olympic Peninsula, representatives of those firms said Friday.

Bonneville’s service to its customers will be disrupted for about two

hours sometime between 4 a.m. and 3 p.m., said Doug Johnson, Bonneville

spokesperson.

Johnson said the company does not disclose which Internet providers use

its lines for “security reasons.”

Shawn Delpane, Clallam County Public Utility District network

administrator, said the disruption will affect Internet customers of the

PUD.

PUD’s broadband customers are Computer Solutions, CresComm, Nikola,

OlympusNet, Olypen, OrcaNet, and Capacity Provisions Inc.

But Internet suppliers with redundant cable paths off the North Olympic

Peninsula will not be affected.

That includes OlyPen, Capacity Provisioning Inc. and Olympus Net.

Nikola and CresComm will experience a disruption, company

representatives said.

A Computer Solutions representative said that the disruption would be

minimal.

An OrcaNet representative said the company has no Internet customers on

the Peninsula.

A previous story, which also appears on Page A4 of the Friday/Saturday print edition, listed PUD customers, but did not say which

companies have redundancy and so will not have a disruption.