Outages mailing list had one member claim it was resolved at 2:30am. Is this not so?
On 12/1/09, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net> wrote: > This is why we have 3 different providers, with different paths out of > our NOC and on different fiber pairs leaving town. > > Qwest had an outage here about 9 months ago that took two of my > competitors completely down for 5 hours... yet we were completely > unaffected. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > Matt Larsen - Lists 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/ > -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
