Alan, I share your concerns over the Virgin Media network resilience. A little while back I had a National Ethernet Service from Bristol to London go down for nearly 3 days because of a 160 Core fibre break due to road works on the M5 - I would have expected there to be an alternate route from Bristol to London.
Luckily, we had a separate Openreach/SSE line into that site for resilience. Paul On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:32, Alan Ramsay <[email protected]> wrote: > The updates that we had regarding this was: > > *-The ducting has now been repaired* > * -The 800m of 160 is currently in the process of being pulled in.* > * -The new cable has now been pulled in and prep work has *began*.* > * -The ETR has now been revised to be between 01:00 - 02:00.* > > I'm assuming that this was 800m of a 160 core fibre. > > It is a little worrying how susceptible Telford is to this, and how poorly > connected things are around here on both BT and Virgin sides. > > So in the last 3 weeks, we've had an extended outage on all FTTC / ADSL / > G.Fast based broadband service due to a single fibre break on the BT(O) > side; and now a single fibre break has taken out all VM services into the > same area. > > You would have thought that the infrastructure would have been in place > to be more resilient than that! > > Alan > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 11:16, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Read the part about a fibre break… >> >> >> >> *From: *uknof <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul >> Mansfield <[email protected]> >> *Date: *Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 10:38 >> *To: *Alan Ramsay <[email protected]>, uknof < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject: *Re: [uknof] VM Network 27/04 since 5pm >> >> >> >> >> >> just speculating wildly, was this a result of IPv6 deployment going wrong? >> > -- Paul Bone Network Consultant PMB Technology
