This is where it would be nice if WISPs were friendly enough with each other in their area to interconnect their networks.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Matt Larsen - Lists" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:54 AM To: "Telecom Regulation & the Internet" <[email protected]>; "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: [WISPA] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure > 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: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
