I wonder what ever happened to the Post Office/Telecom Analogue/Fibre Link that ran along State highway one... Both the Rimutaka and Taranaki Faults are miles away! LOL... It sucks to be a VoIP customer! -----Original Message----- From: Lin Nah [mailto:lin(a)darkmere.gen.nz] Sent: Monday, 20 June 2005 07:20 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Outage update from Telecom John Goulter on Checkpoint explaining it all http://y3m.net/files/audio/telecom.fault.interview-2005-06-20.mp3 Mark Weldon talking about the outage to NZX (second time in the last week! IIRC last one was due to a HDD failure in a firewall) http://y3m.net/files/audio/telecom.fault.weldon-2005-06-20.mp3 I am now waiting for the questions in parliament about the outage on stuff like (all this from a post made in one of the online forums so may not be right. I doubt anyone within Telecom would tell us the real story) a. 111 Calls b. Apparently some home detention services c. Things like the following make the dsl outage seem minor Air New Zealand - flights impacted All South Island Airports grounded Airways - planes grounded d. Banks, Stock Exchange, Credit unions affected (List is much longer but these are a few examples) All it took was two problems: a rat and a post digger. We don't need any terrorists 8) Like Andy asking, can we really protect from such things? Do we have the redundancy? Hypothetically if Someone in telecom went to Telstraclear and asked if they could take over 111 calls, could they? Could NZ afford more redudancy? Could NZ not afford to have greater redundancy? Apart from Telecom, I doubt we have anything better. There is no phone network alternative. Only nationwide phone network that was going today was vodafone. However that doesn't do 111, DSL or IPNet. Is this the cost we pay for having such a big monopoly dominate telecommunications in NZ? Let's not forget that TelstraClear and many other ISPs in NZ resell Telecom (either wholesale or UBS). TCL has patches of their own network (eg Chch and wgtn are two examples). However the last mile home for majority of NZers is still Telecom. lin _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog