Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

Thu Aug 17 17:55:35 UTC 2023

I'm familiar with the island, it's it's puzzling that the major 3 cell
carriers would accept a single point of failure like that, you would think
they had microwave backup at minimum. Maybe it was a generator issue.

I'm sure a few cells burned but there are over ten on the west side so they
didn't all burn.

Feet on the ground are reporting they brought in at least a few COWS
(cellular on wheels/portable cell site trucks)

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 12:53 AM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 6:43 PM scott via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
> > Last, it's an island and diverse paths are
> > short in number.
>
> To put it into perspective: there are exactly TWO roads that can get
> you from Lahaina back to Kahului and the airport. One of them is a
> narrow, cliff-hugging single lane road that is more or less paved.
>
> Though I am curious about the Paniolo cable landing in Lahaina. Did it
> survive? HICS and HIFN land in Kihei instead, right?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
>
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
>
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