Nick Larsen (ZeroOne Operations) wrote:
Only slightly, a few services hosted in our Wellington IDC that talk to systems on/through Telecoms network were affected (eg: SMS gateway, Payment gateway). I would have thought there'd be more talk about it on the list, as I'd imagine others *would* have been affected a lot more.
Well, I refrained, as it's not really *my* systems, and was already somewhat reported via mainstream media... But, the fire service was hit fairly hard. The reporting system is also used for turnouts, and was down, so the comm centers had to page everyone out manually. We were out doing some PT and heard a rollover accident at the Paramata roundabout; thus shot on down to it, advising comms on the way. They followed up with a pager msg including a smiley, undoubtably because it wasn't going into the official reporting systems. The systems for appliance status were also down, so rather than the usual "push a button in the cab" for a lot of status changes everything had to be verbally radioed in. I understand that in Northland the paging systems were out entirely, and they were on siren/verbal turnout only up there. And lastly, I hear that some Ambo comms were out entirely, though don't know any more about it (Messrs Poole or Foster may have more on that). -- Regards, Ed Hintz ed(a)hintz.org