[CII] Fwd: [ NNSquad ] A Ridiculous Failure of Critical Infrastructure

[Robert Slade]

> <lists at MANAGEISP.COM> wrote:
> >
> > Some kind of combination of failure between Charter and Qwest 
> has left
> > tens of thousands of people in Nebraska without Internet and has
> > disrupted the Internet and phone services for thousands 
> more.    Right
> > now, the outage is going on 12 hours and there is no ETA for 
> repair in
> > sight.
> >
> > The word coming down is that the outage is on a Qwest fiber, 
> but it
> > looks to me like both parties should be on the hot seat for 
> not having
> > the ability to route around the problem.    
> There was a four hour  
> > outage
> > on Charter a week ago that was caused by a fiber cut in Gothenburg,
> > Nebraska.
> > That one killed everything west of the cut, but it was small 
> potatoes> compared to this one.   Is this truly the 
> level of performance that we
> > can expect from our major Internet backbone 
> providers?   It took me
> > about 10 seconds to re-route my traffic to a backup provider - 
> you  
> > would
> > think that a couple of multimillion dollar companies would be 
> able to
> > sort out a problem of this nature in a reasonable amount of 
> time.   The
> > small CLEC that I use for my backup connection had enough 
> capacity to
> > route around the problem and was even able to lend me a little 
> bit  
> > after
> > 5pm when the traffic on their network (mostly businesses) 
> dropped off.
> > It isn't rocket science to figure out how to route around an outage.
> >
> > Almost as frustrating is that there was NO news about the outages
> > anywhere except on the social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter).
> > One TV station in Hastings, NE put up a short story on their 
> website,> but I got more news from the tweets and FB posts that 
> people where
> > posting from their cell phones than I did from anywhere 
> else.   None of
> > the network outage sites have any news about this.
> >
> > Could this be a harbinger of things to come?   I am 
> feeling pretty
> > thankful right now that I have a choice in backbone providers 
> and that I
> > kept a second one.   Diversity is a good thing, and 
> this is a great
> > example of why we need competition and multiple options for 
> Internet.>
> > Matt Larsen
> > vistabeam.com
> 
> 
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