[145599] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Wed Oct 12 18:42:54 2011
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:40:49 +0200
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <C78D1A7F-E0B5-4001-BDAD-9E035E655FD9@hopcount.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Joe Abley (jabley) writes:
>
> > 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.
Correct - they need to transit at some point through the RIM servers.
http://www.interworks.com/blogs/wlyles/2010/01/14/why-rim-outage-affects-users-corporate-bes
That's just wrong on so many levels.
Cheers,
Phil
