Did anyone catch the 10 am confference call. According the CEO, for any current delays, pull the battery.
Is every back to normal? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Ben Serebin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Snip from RIM website below. Summary: failure of testing redundant > systems and not having enough redundant capacity. > > Have numerous clients with BBs on BES across US, and have random > users affected. I just alerted all my clients to the problems. I'm a big > believer in the BB functionality, but I only see one way the BB platform > will go, and it's sadly not up. I wish the BB hardware natively supported > direct ActiveSync functionality. > > -Ben > > Tuesday 11th October - 21:30 (GMT+1) > The messaging and browsing delays that some of you are still experiencing > were caused by a core switch failure within RIM's infrastructure. Although > the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did not > function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was > generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal > service as quickly as possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience > caused to many of you and we will continue to keep you informed. > http://www.rim.com/newsroom/service-update.shtml > .... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:31 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT - Blackberry Outage > > RIM has an outage banner on their home page. > > Users report sporadic email, at best. SMS works. Our BES says it's had > contact with the handhelds and RIM's servers, but Pending Data Packets is > steadily increasing and Forwarded Messages is barely moving. (We're on > Verizon, homed in North-East US.) > > According to the CNN article, RIM's core switch died, and the failover > didn't. They fixed the switch issues, but now their system is overloaded > due to the backlog. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ < > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > -- Justin IT-TECH ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
