A little problem.
It seems that Sprint Nextel had a little outage today.
From the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Fiber-optics cut affects Sprint service
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless, long-distance and Internet customers along the West Coast were without service for several hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut west of Phoenix.
The problem was compounded by network repairs near Reno, Nev., that had forced the company to route calls from that region through the Phoenix lines, spokesman John Taylor said.
Dial-tones were restored by 7PM EST.
Redundancy pathways are good but one must always look at how many failures the system can have and what your acceptable quality of service is. The internet was designed to route around failed nodes; the phone company could take lessons (and not have such big frikking nodes!).
Posted by DaveH at January 9, 2006 10:45 PM