[145598] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Oct 12 18:06:32 2011
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20111012220240.GC30621@macbook.bluepipe.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:06:17 -0400
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
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On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> Joe Abley (jabley) writes:
>>=20
>> On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote:
>>=20
>>> Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-)
>>=20
>> The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of =
processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the =
core as a simple transport and shift the processing intelligence to the =
edge have different, less-dramatic failure modes.
>=20
> This is not the case for corporate customers with dedicated =
servers,
> AFAIU.
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that at some/most/all traffic =
between handhelds and a BES, carried from the handheld device through a =
cellular network, still flows through RIM.
Joe=
