FCC: Staff Report on T-Mobile Outage on June 15 2020

Thu Nov 12 21:54:45 UTC 2020

The larger story here is...

"7. Routing.  Routers connect T-Mobile’s LTE towers to T-Mobile’s LTE
network.  These routers utilize a routing protocol called Open
Shortest Path First."

Calling Vijay Gill to the courtesy phone.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 3:16 PM Sabri Berisha <sabri at cluecentral.net> wrote:
>
> ----- On Nov 12, 2020, at 9:35 AM, Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > FCC Issues Staff Report On T-Mobile Outage
> >
> > https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-staff-report-t-mobile-outage-0
>
> This part, I find most interesting as well:
>
> > However, they were unable to resolve the issue by restoring the link because
> > the network management tools required to do so remotely relied on the same
> > paths they had just disabled.
>
> I can't begin to tell you how often I battled senior mgmt to get some investment
> into an OOB network. This only proves the point.
>
> Parantap, are you reading this? I know you are.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sabri