<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">So in other words, VZ has under-engineered their network so that a single point of failure brings the entire 911 system down for the region? At the prices government pays for telco contracts, one would hope that’s not the case.<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 21, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Ryan Chewning via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">The 911 PSAP trunks / lines are provided by the LEC to the 911 center in most cases. If there aren't any other LECs near by then yes the 911 PSAPs could be without service. Not to mention that the radio traffic for some radio systems might travel over parts of the VZ network that are damaged. <br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Charles Goorsky via Outages <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages@outages.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">So I'm skeptical about the truth of this comment, and I'm wondering if someone could set me a bit straighter:<br class=""><br class="">"These reckless perpetrators are risking the lives of countless Americans
by cutting access to key lines of communications, especially to local
police, fire and rescue personnel."<br class=""><br class=""></div>Don't the local lines to police / fire go through the 911 dispatch? Wouldn't that be a municipal (city-owned) communications platform? If this is the case, wouldn't landline calls to 911 still work just fine?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Wouldn't a non-Verizon cellphone still also be able to get a call through?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Damian Menscher via Outages <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages@outages.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM, chris via Outages <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank" class="">outages@outages.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Anyone aware of any known outages/issues for FIOS? Have a handful of customers in northern NJ with business FIOS with 50%+ packet loss on all verizon hops. We have checked these customers and theres no congestion on their networks.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We're aware of the Verizon strike in progress and wondering if maybe some repair or maintenance is not being done because of the strike?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class="">...or possibly worse: <a href="http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-out-service-cutting-cables-and-damaging-network" target="_blank" class="">http://www.verizon.com/about/news/criminals-put-thousands-verizon-customers-out-service-cutting-cables-and-damaging-network</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Damian</div><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">If anyone from VZ has ability to dig deeper or if anyone else is seeing similar issues would be good to hear.</div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></div>
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