[Outages-discussion] [outages] Comcast/Xfinity outage

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Jun 4 18:23:43 EDT 2020


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com>

> Hard to believe a truck going down an alley took out several states, but that’s
> what these articles appear to indicate:
> 
> https://week.com/2020/06/03/comcast-down-throughout-the-area/
> 
> https://www.wcia.com/news/internet-outage-hits-midwest/

This seems like an excellent time to revisit the difficulty any end-user 
customer has getting physical routings out of their carrier, so they can
manage their own physical diversity; I've always sort of assumed it was just
to hide the fact carriers don't themselves know what goes where anymore.

Cheers,
-- jra
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