Not related to Verizon or outages at all (though it certainly was going to be a very expensive and large scale outage at the time), there's a fascinating book about the group of investors and people who formed a new group to acquire the "v1.0" Iridium network out of bankruptcy, turn it into a DoD essential service/US government contractor, and run the second corporate incarnation of Iridium.
https://www.amazon.ca/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/dp/0802121683 https://groveatlantic.com/book/eccentric-orbits/ On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:36 PM Aaron Groom <aaron.gr...@entrywan.com> wrote: > That will be an interesting read. > > I recently read the book "Rogers v Rogers" that covers the major Rogers > Communications outage in Canada from a couple years ago. The book is > mostly biographical, but it lays a good historical foundation for those > events. > > Anyone else have any good book recommendations? > > Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> writes: > > > Due to the scale of this I would expect an outage report to appear with > the FCC in the next year. > > > > I do think this highlights the increased frequency and impact of these > outages. > > > > Make sure you have backup plans for communications if one or more > > fails. While my personal impact was near nil many people use telemetry > > or navigation over cellular as a service and would have been > > impacted. If I was for example an uber driver impacted I may not be > > able to reach my destination, or I may not be able to summon one. > > > > As the market squeezes margins our tolerance for faults also > > narrows. We saw this with supply chains 2020-present and I expect the > > rate will increase vs decrease in the coming years where a disruption > > has unexpected impacts. > > > > Role play these outages and test them where possible. > > > > - Jared > > > > Sent via RFC1925 compliant device > > > >> On Oct 1, 2024, at 12:16 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <a...@andyring.com> wrote: > >> > >> Now that this is behind us, I’m wondering if anyone has heard what > actually happened. > >> > >> Does Verizon do after-action reports that we could find? > >> > >> ---- > >> Andy Ringsmuth > >> 5609 Harding Drive > >> Lincoln, NE 68521-5831 > >> (402) 202-1230 > >> a...@andyring.com >
