Cable and Wireless left cableless by double line break

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James

Freeserve? #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 10:44 GMT

Shurely shome mishtake?

Gordon Grant

Orange web side disappeared #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 10:52 GMT

Ah so that's what happened did wonder why orange.net / .co.uk and it's user webspace / ftp system disappeared totally.. I mean I actually used the free webspace they gave away to put up a site, that was before the "ads" webspace they now do came about.

It was a tad annoying but I suppose totally outwith Orange's control. I've read so much bad press about them I can't say I've had any problem with them but then again I don't got a live box...

Bo Pedersen

almost as funny as #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 11:25 GMT

when GXNetworks (pipex) point of presence in leeds had scaffolding built up next to it blocking their wireless signal (that'll learn em!!!)

causing them to pay out on SLA's! :)

a single point of failure is a bad idea guys, in this instance you didnt have enough network resilience.......but of course higher management always scoff at the idea of spending money before a disaster happens!

Bill Loney

Lies and deceit #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 11:26 GMT

It is just a conspiracy to load the wires with hardware to monitor all internet traffic - and wireless because we all know the internet is heading that way.

Alien - b/c if the government denies it we all know there is only one other realistic conspiracy option.

amanfromMars

Just a guess, which can be easily plausibly denied. #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 12:42 GMT

Probably installing a fibre optic splitter box to facilitate phishing....... which would be something similar to "Lies and deceit" ... By Bill Loney Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 11:20 GMT.

rogueelement

@Bo Pedersen #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 12:42 GMT

the interesting thing is there wasn't a SPOF and that they suffered two line breaks in geographically seperate locations.

Anonymous Coward

Grammer #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 12:50 GMT

"full service was restore within 5 hours"

Obviously, full service with the exception of their grammer checker!

PH icon, (au) natural(ly)

Bo Pedersen

@rogueelement #

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 22:45 GMT

but thats jut the thing, because they use linked nodes to shove traffic around the country, you would think they would have more than just one other backup link

a company has two connections one for failover , blah blah

but the service provider should rather have more fo a grid rather than just point to point lines, but I am sure thats just asking too much :)

it wasnt long after the GXnetworks event, that the decline of (pipex) began

pipex was of course gxnetworks having bought pipex keeping the brand.

a lot of companies lost a lot of money over that couple of days.

I know people need to keep costs down, but like I keep telling DR managment meetings, the biggest cost is when something fails.

it was unlucky though ........ almost too unlucky (the 2x outages I mean)

kain preacher

amanfromMars #

Posted Thursday 3rd July 2008 00:30 GMT

Probably installing a fibre optic splitter box to facilitate phishing....... which would be something similar to "Lies and deceit" ... By Bill Loney Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 11:20 GMT.

Um the reason why fiber can be secured line is because the moment you splice into it some knows. Plus its not a five minute job. You need the proper tools. So if some did splice into the line and they didn't notice they should be shut down

Scott Mckenzie

@AC #

Posted Thursday 3rd July 2008 08:42 GMT

Oh the irony of your *grammar* checker statement.....

Anonymous Coward

Hmmmmmm? #

Posted Thursday 3rd July 2008 10:51 GMT

Two , separate fibre breaks - same time? Sound's like one from the outage hat to me!

Stephen Gray

@ Hmmmmm by AC #

Posted Thursday 3rd July 2008 11:12 GMT

Err yes thats exactly what happened, the odds are exactly the same for each failure.

Anonymous Coward

@Stephen Gray #

Posted Thursday 3rd July 2008 13:32 GMT

But not as high as the odds of them both happening at the same time.....

pctechxp

ok thats the cable #

Posted Thursday 3rd July 2008 15:06 GMT

but surely they have the back up of wireless as thats their name obviously or is this just an example of misleading advertising?

Oh and btw, I am definitely convinced that amanfrommars is a bot because its sentence structure is non existent and looks like those dodgy pharmacy mails and has taken to just copy and pasting on some occasions.