Thunder Bay police set up 911 email as Canada-wide cellular outage continues

28 points by LookAtThatBacon 3 years ago | 9 comments
  • ifelsethenyeah 3 years ago
    "Oookay, who fat-fingered the EBGP peering table this time?"

    Welp, everyone needs a DR/BCP plan for national and regional disasters of natural and human kinds that also involve cellular, network, fuel, and power outages at different areas.

    For example, perhaps the they need multiple cell carriers with independent backbones run by different companies.

    • ChoGGi 3 years ago
      I'm curious if anyone knows the connection between Rogers and debit machines? It's been an entertaining day for me :)
      • lfuller 3 years ago
        The Interac network uses Rogers for its backbone apparently.
        • VoidWhisperer 3 years ago
          Is there a technical reason that a debit system backend wouldn't be set up with some redundancies (ie not singlehomed to rogers) or is it just laziness/costcutting?
          • randomdata 3 years ago
            Word on the street is that they have a redundant network in place, but it is also supplied by Rogers. So more likely some technical incompetence combined with snake oil salesmanery.
            • _3u10 3 years ago
              The system has redundancies… checkout Roger’s fiber map. This is a network problem, not a “connection” issue.
              • err4nt 3 years ago
                speculation, but hopefully grounded in truth. There are few networks in Canada, and many of the providers on these networks resell service on the network that's owned and operated by only a few (3? more? less?) companies