Bell outage

Fri Aug 4 19:44:24 UTC 2017

Makes me wonder what the GIS department is like at $BIGCARRIER and how such
a workgroup of specialists interfaces with their in house OSP fiber teams
(and those responsible for acquiring IRUs, leasing and documenting third
party dark, etc).

On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Ken Chase <math at sizone.org> wrote:

> And can be hard to know without serious dilligence - two of our upstreams
> happened to go through the same 360 networks conduit in montreal that "saw
> significant rodent activity". Both were down for 6 hours. A couple
> customers
> had some custom apps that relied on the two, each as redundancy to the
> other.
>
> That didnt work out.
>
> Getting salesdroids to give you the info can be very hard though, and even
> tech dept's may not know what secondary providers their fibres run through
> or
> where, readily.
>
> /kc
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:57:22PM -0400, Alain Hebert said:
>   >    Well,
>   >
>   >    Saying they provided you with geographically diverse circuits versus
>   >actually doing it, happen way too often.
>   >
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