Re: Correcting national address databases?

2024-05-30 Thread Sean Donelan
Since I did address database software for public libraries for a couple of decades Addresses are complicated. In North American (USA & Canada) there are approximately 80,000 localities, counties, states and federal addressing authorities (mostly local building and planning

Re: Correcting national address databases?

2024-05-30 Thread Sean Donelan
Visit your local post office ask for the postmaster. They can’t fix it but should have a form to correct the database used by almost all shippers in the U.S. unfortunately may take 6 months to propagate changes. Can also call 1-800-275-8777 but usually local postmaster is helpful. > On May

Re: Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

2024-05-17 Thread Sean Donelan
The FCC's job isn't to solve technical problems. Instead it is attempting to get CEOs, business managers and venture capital firms to include these public policy requirements as part of their business decision making. Impact business budgets and decision making to fix public problems.

Re: Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

2024-05-17 Thread Sean Donelan
Sigh, industry hasn't solved spoofing and routing insecurity in two decades. If it was easy, everyone would have fixed it by now. Industry has been saying 'don't regulate us' for decades.

Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

2024-05-16 Thread Sean Donelan
Should FCC focus on SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities? https://www.404media.co/email/79f7367c-bd3c-4bff-ac9f-85c738d08bec/ https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10427582404839/1 Additional comments from Kevin Briggs: "I have seen what appears to be reliable information related to

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

2024-03-19 Thread Sean Donelan
Microsoft is the only mail provider that exhibits this behiavor. And I've heard the same thing from other people using small domains. The Microsoft autobot response a few years ago said "the domain didn't send enough emails." I don't know why I would send more emails to a provider which

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

2024-03-19 Thread Sean Donelan
Yep, just had another one. Email to local election office silently vanishes because it uses Office365 Cloud email. Needed to use Gmail instead. On Tue, 12 Mar 2024, John Levine wrote: It appears that Sean Donelan said: Microsoft's corporate email systems appear to silently drop email

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

2024-03-12 Thread Sean Donelan
Microsoft's corporate email systems appear to silently drop email from small domains (like mine). Yes, I jumped through the public hoops already. Microsoft may have a great Trust and Safety Team, but their corporate infrastructure doesn't seem to want to hear from outsiders. If the

RE: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

2024-03-08 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Travis Garrison wrote: This would be a company that has registered for an office365 account. Office 365 company accounts are registered as companyname [dot] onmicrosoft [dot] com. You then add domain aliases if you want to use your own preferred domain name. Microsoft "Know

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

2024-03-08 Thread Sean Donelan
The subdomain[dot]onmicrosoftp[dot]com domain seems to be almost 99% spammers riding on Microsoft's reputation. I've given up on any real email from those subdomains, and just block it completely. Reputable companies using Microsoft cloud mail usually have their own registered domains as

Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

2024-02-26 Thread Sean Donelan
.  Contractors need that. Global networks rarely have a contact appropriate for provisioning in a public facing database. On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 14:50 Sean Donelan wrote: Authentication by letterhead? Paper LOAs are unauthenticated documents, not worth the paper

Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

2024-02-26 Thread Sean Donelan
Authentication by letterhead? Paper LOAs are unauthenticated documents, not worth the paper they are written on. Usually FAXed, which is even less authenticatable (is that a word?). Prosecutors are capable of using digital documents. Do it all the time with echecks, credit cards, ecommerce

EU Gigabit Infrastructure Act agreement - in-building infrastructure access

2024-02-19 Thread Sean Donelan
While I'm still asking a builder in the USA about pre-wiring new construction house The EU has included in-building infrastructure and fiber ready requirements in its new Gigabit Infrastructure act.

Federal subsidy boosting internet affordability set to expire unless Congress acts | PBS NewsHour

2024-02-07 Thread Sean Donelan
The Affordable Connectivity Program will expire tomorrow unless renewed by Congress It won’t have an immediate impact but FCC will stop accepting new applications. Current applications will continue until existing funds run out.

NFPA 70 National Electrical Code 2026 first draft changes

2024-01-28 Thread Sean Donelan
The Code Making Panels for the NFPA 70 National Electrical Code meet for the last couple of weeks (Jan 15-26, 2024). One proposed change for 2026 is "Keeping the NEC Relevant - Is Now the Time to Modernize?"

Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

2024-01-16 Thread Sean Donelan
350 Cermak Chicago is a "historic" building which means you can't change the visible outside. Someone had long discussions about the benefits of outside air economizers, but can't change the windows. Need to hide HVAC plant (as much as possible). I would design all colos to look like 375

FCC rejects Starlink application for $900 million subsidy

2023-12-12 Thread Sean Donelan
FCC REAFFIRMS DECISION TO REJECT STARLINK APPLICATION FOR NEARLY $900 MILLION IN SUBSIDIES Applicant Failed to Meet Burden for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund The Federal Communications Commission today reaffirmed the Wireline Bureau’s prior decision to reject the long-form application of

Re: "Lit" Buildings

2023-12-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Mike Hammett wrote: For those of you who list your network (usually wireline, but sometimes wireless) with third parties, are you supplying just the KMZ or lit buildings as well? If lit buildings, are you including residential? How are you defining near-net? In the ancient

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-12-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I think an important point for pre-wire and residential real estate developers to consider is also the conflicting needs of keeping things "neat and tidy" and last mile CPE location vs wifi coverage. The answer is always 5G - 5G - 5G. A 5G solution means

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-12-05 Thread Sean Donelan
You've misunderstood the goal. The intent is not to protect the fiber, but to make it easier for the field tech installing new service in a neat way through finished construction and concealled raceways, without cutting sheetrock or stapling exposed cabling across walls. Trying to prevent

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-12-05 Thread Sean Donelan
I should have known better, network engineers don't work on the physical infrastructure very much anymore - memories of sitting on concrete floors crimping cable ends in to many IXPs :-) If you never seen or installed ENT Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing Conduit, also known as "smurf tube" --

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-30 Thread Sean Donelan
On 11/28/23 12:43, Owen DeLong wrote: I’ve never used ENT (never even seen that name, TBH). 1” EMT is readily available at Home Depot and Lowes out here as well as several reputable supply houses. The nice thing about promoting industry standards is clever products to meet those standards

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-28 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Stan Barber wrote: That being said, I would ask if the home is being prewired for alarm services or not. If so, you could find an avenue to ask about other things. My sister and her husband just bought a new house outside of Dallas and it is coming prewired for RG6, wired

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-28 Thread Sean Donelan
My relative is buying a new house is a typical American surbuban tract housing development. Yep, I'm the extended family I.T. consultant. The marketing brochure calls it "custom home" but he only gets to talk to the developer's "design consultants", i.e. sales people. The developer has a

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-24 Thread Sean Donelan
Thanks Brandon Martin, I agree 1-inch smurf tube is overkill for FTTH. From my quick research into all things FTTH, which I didn't know anything a week ago :-) ... The regulators in other countries still believe they will create competition. The 25mm/32mm access duct (I'm going to make up a

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-24 Thread Sean Donelan
Sorry long, detailed message. TL;DR - Use 1-inch trade size smurf tube for new North America FTTH construction. North American FTTH may not have standards for the in-building access conduit between the demarc point, Minimum Point of Entry (MPOE) in the old terminology, and the dwelling's

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-22 Thread Sean Donelan
For *only* $1,000, the builder is willing to pre-install a smurf tube from the demarc to the central distribution point. But such a deal for 5G Since most fiber installs seem to use pre-connectorized cable, without affecting building structure integrity (i.e. 2-inch is too big

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-20 Thread Sean Donelan
Around here, the local carrier seems to have stopped FTTH deployment. Instead, the carrier is convincing home builders not to spend money on demarc pre-wire. Wireless Home 5G service is all customers' need. Of course, the lack of demarc planning makes things more expensive for any

Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-11-19 Thread Sean Donelan
Of course, every local carrier will be different, what are the current preferences for pre-wiring a customer demarc (NID, the box that hangs on the outside of the house, whatever the service provider calls it now)? 1. Nothing - telco/cable will do whatever the heck they want and wreck the

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

2023-10-23 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 23 Oct 2023, James Jun wrote: "2N" generally means you're connected to completely different UPS system/complex and corresponding distribution systems for each of your circuit. This is ideal configuration for most critical loads. If you are in a single facility, even one with 2N+2

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

2023-10-23 Thread Sean Donelan
165 Halsey (and most of its tenant) data centers is an older facility. Data center practices have changed over the decades, and terminlogy wasn't standardized until recently. The biggest FUBAR in telco and data centers is the difference between "redundancy" and "diversity." Redundant

FCC and CISA host roundtable on Alerting Security Oct 30 2023

2023-10-16 Thread Sean Donelan
The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), together with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Emergency Communications Division, will host a public roundtable on the cybersecurity of the nation’s public alert and

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-06 Thread Sean Donelan
The Disability Advocacy Community has been extensively involved with CMAS/WEA since President Bush signed the WARN Act, passed by a republican house and republican senate, in 2006. The dozens of disability groups helped design the sound and vibration cadence (which is different than EAS),

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, William Herrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:21 AM Sabri Berisha wrote: Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii. For the national alert you can't. That's intentional. Although for some reason my silenced phone

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote: Ah, I didn't realize that was locally set on the device--I thought that was part of the message header in the message being sent out. Thanks for the clarification.  ^_^ Yep. That's why countries with a Prime Minister (or monarch or both) were

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote: Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^; (Samsung Galaxy phone) Yeah, Samsung is bad about releasing software updates for its older (a few months old) products.

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
Inter-agency bureaucracy. FEMA is part of Homeland Security. National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. Different departments of the government. Weather radios will active for a White House issued alert from the President. NOAA doesn't activate weather radios for FEMA

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, nanog08 wrote: Move?  ...  :-) Off planet? All countries in the European Union, plus at least 35 other countries around the world, have or will soon implement their county-specific version of Emergency Mobile Alerts. Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan A. Krenzischek wrote: Yes, I already tried rebooting several times. Perhaps a large hammer will fix it! At least I know I'll be well notified in an emergency. Everytime you turn off a mobile device, it clears the cache of previous alerts. You will receive the

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
There are dozens of WEA alerts every day, 365x7 days a year. If you leave a hidden burner phone turned on the other 364 days a year, it will make a noise from something else. Software mute buttons never mute everything. Some groups use once a year events to get publicity for their causes

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan A. Krenzischek wrote: I've only gotten the alert now ...9 times. Unless you keep turning your phone off, alerts have a serial number. Phones check the serial number for recently received alerts. Or so Android and iOS developers claim. If you are getting duplicate

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote: Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii. Do you mean the 98 people (at least) who died due to the Maui Lahaina wildfires. Seems like the same people who complain about the testing of public

U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-01 Thread Sean Donelan
This year's test of the U.S. national emergency alert includes something for ISPs and network operators. The wireless portion of the national test is scheduled 2 minutes (2:18pm EDT or 1818 UTC) before the main broadcast test at 2:20. Mobile phones usually receive the alert about a minute

Canadian regulator CRTC hires private company to investigate 2022 Rogers outage

2023-09-14 Thread Sean Donelan
CRTC hires private company to investigate 2022 Rogers outage Critics say regulator being too secretive about probe, too slow to force more transparency from big telecoms https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-rogers-outage-investigation-1.6963052 CBC News has learned Canada's

University of Michigan shuts down school’s internet connections

2023-08-29 Thread Sean Donelan
Only interesting for this list because of NANOG's history with MERIT and UofM. Long since separated. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/university-of-michigan-cyber-incident-offline/index.html The University of Michigan has been without full internet access for two days after staff

RE: California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts

2023-08-21 Thread Sean Donelan
-Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Monday, August 21, 2023 3:01 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts WARNING: This message originated outside of Ford Motor Company. Use caution when opening attachments

California hurricane and earthquake telecommunication impacts

2023-08-21 Thread Sean Donelan
For California only (I don't have sources for Hawaii). no reported loss of life 58,555 telecom subscribers out of service 54,514 power subscribers out of service 85 cell sites out of service (7 damanged, 52 transport, 20 no power) Less than 1% OOS in declared area 2 PSAPs (911) out of

Copper wire thefts increase 139% in one California county

2023-07-01 Thread Sean Donelan
Copper wire thefts of all kinds appear to be increasing in 2023. Not just telecommunications copper cables, but also electric and transit cables. San Joaquin County reported a 139% increase in copper wire thefts over four months, and one theft in the county left the 911 center unable to

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-23 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023, Delong.com wrote: Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers There’s probably close to that number in the South Bay Area of California as well. California is well-known for its state enviromental laws and zoning, so some of the issues with the 'wild-west' zoning of

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-23 Thread Sean Donelan
Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers. The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers The electric grid complaints are about the demand on

Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-22 Thread Sean Donelan
Backlash to data centers prompts political upset in northern Virginia By MATTHEW BARAKAT https://apnews.com/article/virginia-election-data-centers-prince-william-229cb44d34ccf4bd1cc4e9f0d0131649 FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — The tech industry’s drive to dot the Virginia landscape with data centers

FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-15 Thread Sean Donelan
While a lot of ISPs gave up on data caps, the language is still lurking in many Terms Of Service. https://www.fcc.gov/document/chair-rosenworcel-proposes-investigate-impact-data-caps proposed Notice of Inquiry to learn more about how broadband providers use data caps on consumer plans.

Hawaii gets a PEP station KHKA CBS 1500

2023-05-30 Thread Sean Donelan
Hawaii has been unique since the beginning of EBS. The State of Hawaii EOC acted as the local Primary Entry Point. All the other PEP stations on the mainland are commercial broadcast stations, based on early EBS working agreements between NAB, White House, FCC and predecessor agencies of

NWS service assessment on 2021 Hurricane Ida

2023-04-27 Thread Sean Donelan
Just published, buried in the after-action report on 2021 Hurricane Ida Commodity internet access is now part of life-safety. National Weather Service Service Assessment August-September 2021 Hurricane Ida April 2023

Re: Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

2023-04-18 Thread Sean Donelan
If both PV battery walls and broadband CPE supported Power-Over-Ethernet as a backup power source, that would work too. POE supports greater distances than USB-C. I'd prefer broadband CPE (UL listed) with a standardized backup power connector (doesn't exist, but I can dream). For DIYers,

Re: Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

2023-04-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Joe Greco wrote: Ubiquiti EdgeRouter PoE 5 can use 48VDC. If both PV battery walls and broadband CPE supported Power-Over-Ethernet as a backup power source, that would work too. POE supports greater distances than USB-C.

Backup DC power standardization with Photovoltiac battery systems?

2023-04-14 Thread Sean Donelan
Are broadband CPE (ONTs, CMs, NIDs, etc) manufacturers and PV battery wall engineers working on any standardized CPE backup power connectors? AC/DC/AC & wall wart DC again is inefficient and reduces runtime. It would be nice if PV/DC battery wall and broadband CPE had a standard DC

Land Mobile Radio (LMR) for Information Technology (IT) Professionals

2023-03-17 Thread Sean Donelan
IT professionals are often tasked with planning, provisioning, implementing, and managing LMR networks with the assumption that all computer networks are basically the same and have the same general requirements. However, in some cases this assumption has resulted in LMR networks being

Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

2023-02-25 Thread Sean Donelan
Verizon network maintenance will impact access to the “National Driver Register,” a system that motor vehicle offices around the country need to check before handing out a license. All 50 states and D.C. participate in the National Driver Register, a database maintained by the National

Last undersea Internet cable connecting Vietnam with the world breaks down

2023-02-22 Thread Sean Donelan
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/last-undersea-internet-cable-connecting-vietnam-with-the-world-breaks-down/248731.vnp Since February 10 when telecommunication firms took technical solutions and opened up more data flows on land-based cables, the Internet connections have been improved and 50% of

FCC order regarding Urth Access LLC

2022-12-08 Thread Sean Donelan
The FCC is (slowly, slowly) increasing robocall enforcement. It issued a cease and desist letter, and directed all voice service providers to take steps to effectively mitigate suspected illegal robocall traffic made by or on behalf of the following: (1) Urth Access, LLC (Urth Access); (2)

Power outages Maryland near Washington DC (Plane crash into power lines)

2022-11-27 Thread Sean Donelan
A small plane crashed into high-voltage transmission power lines in Montgomery County, Maryland; near Washington DC. Most of the data centers are in Northern Virginia, but some are in Southern Maryland (Wheaton, Olney, Gaithersburg and as far away as Silver Spring).

FCC Requires Broadband Providers to Display Labels to Help Consumers

2022-11-17 Thread Sean Donelan
The effective date will be determined later, after publication in the Federal Register and OMB review under PRA. November 17, 2022—The Federal Communications Commission today unveiled new rules that will for the first time require broadband providers to display easy-tounderstand labels to

FCC October meeting: Caller ID Authentication on Non-IP Network

2022-10-07 Thread Sean Donelan
Caller ID Authentication on Non-IP Networks – The Commission will consider a Notice of Inquiry launching a broad inquiry on caller ID authentication technology for non-Internet Protocol networks. (WC Docket No. 17- 97)

FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-03 Thread Sean Donelan
'Fines alone aren't enough:' FCC threatens to blacklist voice providers for flouting robocall rules https://www.cyberscoop.com/fcc-robocall-fine-database-removal/ [...] “This is a new era. If a provider doesn’t meet its obligations under the law, it now faces expulsion from America’s phone

Ian and Fiona status reports

2022-09-28 Thread Sean Donelan
Ian (Florida, September 28, 2022) 102,000 customer power outages in Florida 188 (1.4%) cell sites out of service worst is MONROE county 12 cell sites (12.1%) 26,716 cable and wireline subscribers out of service Fiona (Puerto Rico, September 28, 2022) 335,000 customers without power in

Cuba island-wide power outage after hurricane Ian

2022-09-27 Thread Sean Donelan
Lazaro Guerra, the technical director of the Electric Union of Cuba, the country’s state power company, said Cuba had "zero electric generation" after the hurricane caused problems in links in the west, center and east of the island. Mr. Guerra said crews would be working all night and

Hurrican Fiona

2022-09-23 Thread Sean Donelan
September 23, 2022 Hurricane Fiona downgraded to category 3 storm. Headed towards Nova Scotia Canada. Approximately, 30,722 (85%) of customers without power after Hurrican Fiona passes by Bermuda. IODA shows Internet service in Bermuda about 50%.

WSJ Explainer: Taiwan has 14 submarine cables

2022-09-21 Thread Sean Donelan
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/how-chinas-military-drills-could-choke-off-taiwans-internet/854E2910-16D3-4265-93B0-19551CB1B3B1 How China’s Military Drills Could Choke Off Taiwan’s Internet Taiwan has 14 submarine cables that connect the island to the rest of the world By Wall

Re: Island-wide power blackout in Puerto Rico

2022-09-20 Thread Sean Donelan
From FCC report for September 20, 2022 (based on data from the prior day). Average of 30% (766) cell sites out of service. Worst >80% out of service in CULEBRA and LAS MARIAS. Cable and wireline companies reported 795,289 subscribers out of service. From U.S. Dept of Energy report for

Re: Island-wide power blackout in Puerto Rico

2022-09-19 Thread Sean Donelan
Latest FCC report (September 19, 2022 based on previous day reporting). Overall, 24.3% (617) cell sites out of service. This is relatively good, because Fiona was only a category 1 hurricane. Less wind, more rain meant less damage to towers. However, wireline and cable companies report

Island-wide power blackout in Puerto Rico

2022-09-18 Thread Sean Donelan
Puerto Rico is experiencing an island-wide power blackout (100%). Today's (based on yesterday's information) FCC Communication Status Report only reports 6.9% of cell towers out of service. I expect tomorrow's report (based on today's information) will be worse.

Re: China Telecom in Hunan office tower fire

2022-09-16 Thread Sean Donelan
Statement from China Telecom (translation by Google Translate) "This afternoon, the façade of the Changsha Second Communication Building caught fire, and the fire was extinguished. In order to prevent danger, some equipment in the building has been powered off. At present, fixed-line

China Telecom in Hunan office tower fire

2022-09-16 Thread Sean Donelan
The China Telecom office tower fire in Hunan is reportedly out, after completely burning the entire 200m tower (42-floors). China Telecom statement: "By around 4:30 pm today, the fire at our No. 2 Communications Tower in Changsha has been extinguished. No casualties have yet been

Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?

2022-09-12 Thread Sean Donelan
Article by Internet Society's Resident Advisor Jim Cowie. Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months? https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/rogers-outage-what-do-we-know-after-two-months September 9, 2022 It’s now been a full two months since Rogers Telecom suffered a nationwide

End of Cogent-Sprint peering wars?

2022-09-07 Thread Sean Donelan
Are Sprint AS1239 and Cogent AS174 finally going to settle their peering disputes? T-Mobile sells legacy Sprint wireline business to Cogent for $1, expects hefty charge https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cogent-communications-acquire-t-mobiles-wireline-business-2022-09-07/ 1,400

Re: VZ FIOS and Intel TCP IPv6 Checksum Offload problems

2022-08-29 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 27 Aug 2022, Michael Thomas wrote: In some situations where a client machine is connected via some specific Optical Network Terminals (ONTs), and data is appended after the packet checksum, the network adapter can drop receive packets when using TCP-IPv6 Checksum Offload for receive

VZ FIOS and Intel TCP IPv6 Checksum Offload problems

2022-08-27 Thread Sean Donelan
Hopefully, my pain will help someone else. I've had sporadic Internet slowdowns and stuck networking since IPv6 was enabled on my FIOS ONT a few months ago. After too much troubleshooting, I found out some older Intel GbE ethernet cards have a IPv6 Checksum Offload incompatibility with

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest

2022-08-26 Thread Sean Donelan
it locally and I'm happy to make it available, just let me know. On Aug 26, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: Having some experience with documents of extreme public interest, and web sites getting overloaded (Starr Report on President Clinton, 1998)... its nice to see government web sites still

U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest

2022-08-26 Thread Sean Donelan
Having some experience with documents of extreme public interest, and web sites getting overloaded (Starr Report on President Clinton, 1998)... its nice to see government web sites still get overloaded several decades later. "PACER Service Under Fire After Trump Affidavit Crash Reports"

Rogers outage - House of Commons INDU hearing

2022-07-25 Thread Sean Donelan
Canada is part of North America, and may be of interest to NANOG. Rogers had a nationwide outage on July 8, 2022. The House of Commons held a hearing today (July 25, 2022) on the outage and invited the Rogers CEO, other company CEOs, regulators and academics to testify. Recording of the

Re: Does anybody know if part of this enforcement involves STIR/SHAKEN?

2022-07-22 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Michael Thomas wrote: Basically the jist that it's fake auto warranty fraud calls. Or is this just requiring providers to do the forensics whichever way to enforce this? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/tech/fcc-robocall-crackdown/index.html As always speak with your

FCC proposes fines against 73 applicants of Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

2022-07-22 Thread Sean Donelan
The FCC proposes $4,353,773.87 in total fines against 73 applicants in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904) that defaulted on their bids for support between July 26, 2021, and March 10, 2022. [...] The objective of Auction 904 was to facilitate the provision of

Re: FCC Chair sends Letters of Inquiry on Consumer Data Privacy Practices

2022-07-20 Thread Sean Donelan
Admitly, my hands-on experience with this type of data is 10-years out of date. The industry has changed a lot. Carrier/MVNO data is less relevant now and has more restrictions. Apps, third-party ad brokers and platforms (Apple, Android) are much more detailed sources of this data now.

Europe data centers struggling to operate in heat wave

2022-07-20 Thread Sean Donelan
I was wondering when we would see the first stories about data center and IXP issues in Europe due to the heat wave. https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-oracle-cloud-uk-heat According to Google Cloud's service health page, one of its London buildings hosting cloud services for one

Re: FCC Chair sends Letters of Inquiry on Consumer Data Privacy Practices

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Donelan
FCC has fixed its website document management system, and has all the letters of inquiry posted. In the letters of inquiry, Chairwoman Rosenworcel asks about their policies around geolocation data, such as how long geolocation data is retained and why and what the current safeguards are to

FCC Chair sends Letters of Inquiry on Consumer Data Privacy Practices

2022-07-19 Thread Sean Donelan
FCC Chairwoman Roseworcel Probes Top Mobile Carriers On Data Privacy Practices The FCC website content management system is messed up this evening, but as far as I can tell AT Best Buy Charter Comcast Consumer Cellular C-Spire Google Fi I assume the rest of the alphabet will show up

Why are ad networks so slow with IPv6?

2022-07-11 Thread Sean Donelan
Verizon FIOS has been rolling out IPv6 across Northern Virginia. Hurrah! Stuff with ads (which is almost everything on the modern Internet) now load much more slowly or timeout. Changed IPv4/IPv6 connection preferences to use IPv4 first. Much improved user experience.

2022 FCC broadband ISP service area survey starts today

2022-06-30 Thread Sean Donelan
Status Update: Mapping Where Broadband Is—and Is Not—Available in the U.S. June 30, 2022 https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/notes/2022/06/30/status-update-mapping-where-broadband-and-not-available-us Inaugural Filing Window for Broadband Data Collection Has Opened

Wired: Russia Is Taking Over [portions of] Ukraine’s Internet

2022-06-15 Thread Sean Donelan
As always, complicated things are complicated. After Crimea was annexed by Russia, they learned the importance of controlling the telecommunications infrastructure. No, Russia did not cut a submarine cable, because there was no submarine cable connecting Crimea. In the old days,

FCC Reminds Small Providers of June 30 STIR/SHAKEN Deadline

2022-06-14 Thread Sean Donelan
The Wireline Competition Bureau reminds non-facilities-based small voice service providers that they must implement the STIR/SHAKEN caller ID authentication framework in their Internet Protocol networks no later than June 30, 2022.

10th anniversary of Wireless Emergency Alerts

2022-06-07 Thread Sean Donelan
June 7, 2022 is the 10th anniversary of Wireless Emergency Alerts in the United States. About 30 countries now use the mobile alert protocol (with country specific names). WEA is that thing which makes your phone buzz loudly and vibrate when there is an emergency message in your area.

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Kord Martin wrote: After years and years of being told why it's not feasible to build out infrastructure upgrades to provide internet service, once I started to work in the industry it was pretty shocking to see how customers are actually treated. It's tough to gather

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote: To be honest, I don't know, I'm not a money person, I just turn knobs.  But apparently it costs more than $130 billion dollars.  In the US alone.  If I had a magic wand, I would have a separate cap on each USF program including the High

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
USF money is about the bottom 1% not the top 1%. I wouldn't be surprised if every Zuckerberg mansion worldwide has a multi-gig connection to support his Metaverse. The top 50% will continue to drive innovation (and bandwidth demand). Broadband service providers claim no ROI to build-out

GAO: Federal broadband efforts fragmented and overlapping

2022-06-04 Thread Sean Donelan
U.S. Government Accountability Office Broadband: National Strategy Needed to Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Digital Divide GAO-22-104611 Published: May 31, 2022. Publicly Released: May 31, 2022. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104611 In its efforts to expand broadband access, the federal

FCC Launches Tutorials & Help Center for Broadband Data Collection

2022-06-03 Thread Sean Donelan
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-launches-tutorials-help-center-broadband-data-collection In preparation for the inaugural Broadband Data Collection (BDC) filing window opening on June 30, 2022, the FCC today announced the launch of an online help center and other new resources to assist

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-03 Thread Sean Donelan
I wish (...) that public right of way agreements included a requirement that service providers must publish accurate service area maps, and must provide service (or pay a substantial penalty for each inaccurate service claim). In the old days (...) the "certificate of publice convenience and

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-30 Thread Sean Donelan
I would say, if you’re looking to build or expand your networks, focus on how you can get the fiber out there, there’s a lot of money available if you’re willing to take it. It might mean taking the USF money and the obligations that go with that in reporting, compliance, etc.. but those

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-27 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 27 May 2022, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: USF is great for rural, but it has turned medium density and suburban areas into connectivity wastelands. Carrier & cable lobbying organizations say that free market competition by multiple providers provide adequate service in those areas.

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