How far away from Illinois are you?
--------------------------------------------- Scott Piehn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <m...@aweiowa.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 7:52 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure > Mediacomm was having some bad equipment problems in Marshalltown or > Des Moines a couple months ago. It was on a hand off to Sprint on > some fiber shelf. It bit us twice, each on a Sunday, for most of the > day. After the second episode, which apparently happened after > scheduled maintenance, I am convinced the big boys decided to mess > with a couple little guys. Sunday outages usually affect residential > users, which are my bread and butter. > > Unfortunately, I didn't have enough sense to have my upstream > provider supply me with a map of exactly how the traffic was routed, > and the outages affected my primary connection AND my backup. Seems > both Dynamic Broadband and Mediacomm hand off to Sprint here in this > part of Iowa. So, even my back-up as currently configured can be at risk. > > Needless to say, I have a winter project to engineer something going > to the east from here. > > Matt, I hope they get it figured out for you guys soon. If you're > anything like me, all hairs are already gray. > > Mike > > At 01:54 AM 12/1/2009, you wrote: >>Some kind of combination of failure between Charter and Qwest has left >>tens of thousands of people in Nebraska without Internet and has >>disrupted the Internet and phone services for thousands more. Right >>now, the outage is going on 12 hours and there is no ETA for repair in >>sight. >> >>The word coming down is that the outage is on a Qwest fiber, but it >>looks to me like both parties should be on the hot seat for not having >>the ability to route around the problem. There was a four hour outage >>on Charter a week ago that was caused by a fiber cut in Gothenburg, >>Nebraska. >>That one killed everything west of the cut, but it was small potatoes >>compared to this one. Is this truly the level of performance that we >>can expect from our major Internet backbone providers? It took me >>about 10 seconds to re-route my traffic to a backup provider - you would >>think that a couple of multimillion dollar companies would be able to >>sort out a problem of this nature in a reasonable amount of time. The >>small CLEC that I use for my backup connection had enough capacity to >>route around the problem and was even able to lend me a little bit after >>5pm when the traffic on their network (mostly businesses) dropped off. >>It isn't rocket science to figure out how to route around an outage. >> >>Almost as frustrating is that there was NO news about the outages >>anywhere except on the social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter). >>One TV station in Hastings, NE put up a short story on their website, >>but I got more news from the tweets and FB posts that people where >>posting from their cell phones than I did from anywhere else. None of >>the network outage sites have any news about this. >> >>Could this be a harbinger of things to come? I am feeling pretty >>thankful right now that I have a choice in backbone providers and that I >>kept a second one. Diversity is a good thing, and this is a great >>example of why we need competition and multiple options for Internet. >> >>Matt Larsen >>vistabeam.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>http://signup.wispa.org/ >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >>Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >>Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
