So, it would take both of these guys... gotcha.
Telia and Cogent, being very cheap wholesale bandwidth providers, did not spend the cash to have a backup, alternate route; and were thus caught out by this problem.
Level3, my provider, has a fully meshed architecture and it would take 2 or more simultaneous outages to cause such a problem, and, it would be localized to one area.
“Level3, my provider, has a fully meshed architecture and it would take 2 or more simultaneous outages to cause such a problem, and, it would be localized to one area.”
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Then it’s good to know we can get some payoff for all those six-inch wide “cable cuts” chopped into streets all over the land that we had to endure during the nineties.
So, it would take both of these guys... gotcha.
This is a travesty, IMO. The whole intent of the Internet, at its inception, was to provide redundant, robust data services in the event of major conflict (read: Nulcear War).
Alternate routing should be industry standard, IMO.
“Most decent providers will use a meshed architecture where loss of a single connection will not cause failure.”
Not my phone company. Embarq doesn’t believe in backup anything. Every outage is a 24 to 36 hours period. It affects entire towns and 1,000s of DSL subscribers. About once every 3 months.
Sprint was bad and every spin off of Sprint’s like Embarq is not worthy of their customers.
I am now actually getting spammed by the Embarq mail servers with duplicate emails. 100s and they’ve done nothing to stop it since last Friday. I have to abandon an email address because of the phone company Embarq.
The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications. Level 3 could not be reached immediately for comment.