[99164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Carrier outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S. Ryan)
Fri Sep 7 19:06:21 2007
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:05:15 -0700
From: "S. Ryan" <auser@mind.net>
To: "Douglas K. Fischer" <fischerdk@fidoki.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46E1D3FE.4000104@fidoki.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I suppose it depends on the 'type' of outage and the type of traffic the
voice conferencing utilizes.
If it's some strange off the wall protocol or something, I suppose it
would have only affected a small portion of people and if it happened on
a carrier like Verizon or Qwest or something, I suppose they fit the
bill for 'major carrier.'
Although I would agree, I would demand answers too but they may be hard
to get depending on circumstances.
Douglas K. Fischer wroteth on 9/7/2007 3:43 PM:
> One of our voice conferencing vendors had an significant outage last
> week, and pinned the blame on a "major US carrier outage" that affected
> telco resources "throughout the United States". Any way to independently
> corroborate this claim? I would imagine news of such a major carrier
> outage would have reached this or another operator's group (and I didn't
> see anything on this list about one). I'm not saying they're "lying",
> but I like to check out such claims to ensure my vendors are being
> honest and up front and not trying to pass the buck.
>
> Naturally the vendor did not say _which_ carrier had the outage.
>
> Any info or guidance as to where I should be looking for info?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Doug
>
>
