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<div class="">Vocus certainly has diverse fibre from the Alexandria CLS too, always has. Happy to help customers out with diversity if they want it, always will. </div>
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<div class="">In this case the issue isn’t the a lack of diversity in the Vocus fibre network. </div>
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<div class="">The real issue is that if you buy an unprotected or single drop service from Southern Cross then you only get one customer facing port from SX, and if you do not have your own DWDM (or equiv) at the CLS and you bought/lease (rely on) dark fibre
to extend your SX circuit from the CLS to another location, that singe dark fibre circuit off of the single SX customer facing port is always going to be a single point of failure and a risk.</div>
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<div class="">Vocus and many of its customers survived the outage as we implement an architecture using 2/3Drop Restored capacity from SX meaning that we have diversity from both the Alexandria and Brookvale CLSs. It is unfortunate that some do not have the
benefit of the same design in their networks, there is always a cost benefit trade off, unfortunately cost often wins.</div>
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<div class="">I would be more than happy to have a deeper discussion on the benefits of the Southern Cross and Vocus networks that can be leveraged to avoid issues like that we saw on Tuesday, if anyone is interested please feel free to contact me directly. </div>
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<div class="">On 23 Mar 2018, at 10:01 am, Bevan Slattery <<a href="mailto:bevan@slattery.net.au" class="">bevan@slattery.net.au</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Pipe had diverse in there and as Superloop are now buying some SX capacity
<div class="">and landing Indigo nearby we are building diverse paths in as we speak. Happy to help anyone out if they need diversity as in end of April.</div>
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<p class="gmail_quote" style="">On 23 March 2018 at 8:31:05 am, Christopher Hawker (<a href="mailto:me@chrishawker.com.au" class="">me@chrishawker.com.au</a>) wrote:</p>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Yes, Vocus may have been operational however several Telcos and ISPs in the pacific islands that use Vocus backhaul with their termination points on the Equinix SY loop suffered major outages. For example,
Digicel Pacific (in Fiji and Vanuatu) had major network outages with no international voice or internet as a result of this fibre cut. Vocus may have been all good, but their customers certainly were not. What diversity does Vocus have in place from the CLS
in Alexandria to the Equinix SY loop?</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">And you do realize that Vocus was still operational with their diverse links right?</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">Also you know that Vocus was not they only one to suffer from that cut right? SCCN and other carriers did as well.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, 22 Mar. 2018, 12:18 Chad Kelly, <<a href="mailto:chad@cpkws.com.au" class="">chad@cpkws.com.au</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> It?s strange they only have one path from there dc to the landing station.<br class="">
No not really, this is Vocus we are talking about, the same company who<br class="">
had an entire DC go offline during a maintenance window.<br class="">
I know technology and infrastructure fails from time to time, but Vocus<br class="">
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