Verizon outage in Southern California?

Wed Oct 19 20:16:00 UTC 2005

5 9s can be measured all sorts of ways...

Network wide, it probably isn't even a blip. Even in terms of all of 
California service its probably not much more than a blip.

Vicky Rode wrote:
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> I wonder what ever happened to redundancy? I guess 5 9s (dunno what the
> going number is) got blown out of the water for them.
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> regards,
> /virendra
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> David Lesher wrote:
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>>Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
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>>
>>>I'm not completely familiar with the telco jargon.
>>>Does Tandem mean the same as a local central office, where
>>>POTS lines terminate at the switch? Long Beach has a population
>>>of 470,000. The C/Os I know of are:
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>>A "Central Office" switch talks to subscribers aka end-users. 
>>On its backside, it talks to other CO's and tandems. Time
>>was, that was also VF copper pairs, but it's long since all 
>>DS1 and up.....
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>>A tandem is a switch that talks not to subs, but only to CO's. In
>>days of old, when a {dialup} call went to the other side of town,
>>chances are it went you-yourCO-downtown tandem-joesCO-joe. {copper
>>all the way...}.
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>>A tandem was always housed in large CO building, but might have
>>been ATT's vice the operationg company, etc...
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>>But ESS's and ""classless switching"" and massive expansion of the
>>plant really muddled the picture. An ESS could be both a CO switch
>>[for multiple prefixes and even multiple NPA's..] AND act like a
>>tandem.. And oh, the actual "line cards" can be remoted 100 miles
>>away in a horz. phonebooth box alongside the road in Smallville....
>>with DS1's/OC coming back. 
>>
>>My guess is a DACS, a cross-connect point that is an software-driven
>>patch panel, lost its marbles. [engineering term of art.....]
>>A DACS could have dozen->MANY dozen DS1/DS3/OC-n going hither
>>and yon. Some will be leased circuits. Others will be the CO trunks
>>going from one switch to another. It may/may not have muxes internal,
>>so that what arrives on a DS1 leaves in a OC96..
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>>I note it went down at 2:20 AM. That SCREAMS software
>>upgrade/cutover. What's to bet GEE, no...VZEEE, was doing just
>>that and there was a major ohshit.
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>>Sean noted a long while back that somehow, DACS crashes always
>>seem to take hours to recover. Maybe the backups are on Kansas
>>City standard tapes, I donno.. but this sounds like that..
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