Well said. There's been a lot of nonsense said about BT Wholesale over this. Ultimately if the box you connect to loses power then it doesn't matter who your provider is, you will lose that feed.
We are a BT WBMC customer and a TalkTalk LLU customer and we take feeds from both providers in London and Manchester. When Telehouse killed the power to BT's suite in London their network repointed everything to our feed in Manchester within minutes - it was a blip, not a major outage. Similarly when TalkTalk have issues and lose London everything fails over to Manchester as you would want it to. Both BT Wholesale and TalkTalk Business are big enough and mature enough network operators to have very decent core resilience. But as a customer you need to understand the resilience on offer and connect your network into it properly. If you build your network to rely on any single point of failure then the only guarantee is that at some point that will fail, no matter who your provider is. Anyone blaming BT for the fact that they were affected by the Telehouse power issue should be looking at their own network design instead and just moving your single point of failure isn't the answer. Chris -----Original Message----- From: uknof [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Bensley Sent: 28 July 2016 09:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uknof] BT Outage? On 28 July 2016 at 06:40, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2016, at 17:48, Paul Webb <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Well we’ve just moved all our lines to TTB from BT WBMC (mostly for > better FTTC performance) and our main POP is THN….but not a blip last > week, everything was fine …thank goodness we moved from BTW J > > I think that's the funniest thing I've ever read! Moving all your ADSL lines from the biggest wholesale LLU provider in the UK to probably the second biggest. We thought about it for about 5 minutes because TalkTalk are offering significant cost savings, but really, you moved all your eggs which were in one basket, to a new single basket. You don't think it best to split across the two instead? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ James. ******************************************************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail immediately and notify the sender. The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. We cannot accept any responsibility for viruses, so please scan all attachments. Changes to Terms and Conditions of Fluidata Limited must be carried out as prescribed in accordance with Fluidata Terms and Conditions. No changes to Fluidata Terms and Conditions of trade can be accepted or agreed through e-mail communication or any method other than as prescribed in Fluidata Terms and Conditions. The sender has no authority to use email communications to bind Fluidata Limited into any legal contract. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Fluidata Limited. Fluidata Limited does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. ******************************************************************************************************** Fluidata Limited is registered in England and Wales, Company Number: 05296759 Registered Office: 2 More London, More London Riverside, London, SE1 2AP
