Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

Thu Aug 17 01:43:39 UTC 2023

On 8/16/23 3:58 AM, TJ Trout wrote:
> I found it interesting that *all*? cellular service on west maui died? 
> Does every carrier single-home via waves served out of the Lahaina CO? 
> Or maybe they aren't allowed to have generators in Maui? Seems like they 
> would have diverse paths to major sites
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Many do mobile backhaul over various providers, including Hawaiian 
Telcom.  We do that over MPLS.  The Lahaina CO is an HT property and we 
maintain the stuff that kept it relatively safe; air handlers, filters, 
generators, battery banks, etc.  All fiber was gone.  The fire was 
intense due to the wind speed.  There was a hurricane near the islands. 
Likely, even the cell towers were melted.  I cannot speak to what the 
cell folks have in place.  Last, it's an island and diverse paths are 
short in number.

scott

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 6:55 PM scott <surfer at mauigateway.com 
> <mailto:surfer at mauigateway.com>> wrote:
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>      > On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 5:21 PM scott via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org
>     <mailto:nanog at nanog.org>
>      >
>      >     On 8/11/23 4:06 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>      >      > It's like a war zone.
>      >
>      >     Yes, it definitely looks like that. We have connectivity to
>     some of the
>      >     edges and have put up hotspots, so folks can go to the
>     hotspot areas
>      >     and
>      >     get internet access.
> 
> 
>     On 8/16/23 12:39 AM, TJ Trout wrote:
> 
>       > Scott: Just an FYI that anecdotal reports from social media
>     coming in or
>       > stating that residents have been unable to connect to the Wi-Fi
>     hotspots
>       > that the local government have been promoting in the Lahaina area.
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>     I don't have anything to do with that as I work in the core and we got
>     the node up for west Maui, so I am done. (:  But I wonder if those are
>     different wifis.  I'd imagine the focus now is plant poles, hang fiber
>     and get the Access part of the network fully up before getting those
>     up,
>     if they're the same ones.
> 
>     scott
> 