<div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>minimum 30
second intervals. Dont Lie. We will know. Just tell us the truth
you will find it will be welcomed by your </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I presume you mean 30 minutes - 30 seconds might be a tad too short... :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Here's a hint.
Dont blame the vendor. I cant blame you to my customers they dont
care all they care about is they were down and how it wont happen
again. Take charge of it. Here's a free technical hint for your
last outage. You need a hard power </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You want an incident report but you don't want them to tell you what happened (ie the vendors equipment had a bug). Sorry, you can't have it both ways.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If your customers are super sensitive to outages, they should have redundancy - either of their own or have you install a second tail from as diverse a path as you can muster into their sites. Offering this to customers and then having them refuse the added cost of the redundancy MAY be a good way of diffusing potential situations in the future. All systems/networks have their moments, no matter who runs them.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>watchdog on the switch. A
device that will hard reboot the power on your switch when it cant
be seen for 5 minutes it needs to be in the pop and self
contained. Im sure you could afford them after all the money you
saved on those non mainstream switches. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure a watchdog system is what I would deploy, but I will say that I think its poor form for AAPT to not have some kind of remote access via another mechanism (eg 3G or ADSL from another carrier) into those POPs and for a completely OOB emergency access mechanism which removed the need for anyone to visit the site. The cost of something like this should be ridiculously low in almost every case and probably would have bought this particular instance down in its length (and therefore impact on clients) considerably.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Brent</div></div>