[AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"

[Luke Thompson]

Damian only mentioned Vodafone's peak throughput; Telstra's average works out higher and therefore results in a likely far greater overall throughput. 

Luke Thompson
Systems Administrator

> On 15 Feb 2016, at 9:34 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
> 
> I don't know, 1.8PB in even only 12 hours works out at ....  .... 41.6666 Gbps or about the same as Vodafone. I'd say its the same order of magnitude, although the Telstra network on a whole during Sunday certainly would have pulled at least 400G if not Tbps.
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Telstra reports the network did 1.8 PB of traffic on Sunday. Impressive. When vodafone did their free weekend for a similar stuff up I believe they reported only getting a peak of 40gbps, which would be almost an order of magnitude less than Telstra. 
>> 
>> http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2016/02/15/big-day-of-free-data/
>> 
>> --Damian
>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Quentin Rittman <quentinrittman at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>> Boost are, Telechoice are, Aldi are,
>>> Others, dunno. 
>>> 
>>> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Narelle <narellec at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Saturday, 13 February 2016 at 6:31 PM
>>> To: Michael Biber <mbiber at ipv6forum.com.au>, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>
>>> Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I've only heard the names of some resellers.
>>> 
>>> Best to check.
>>> 
>>> YBSMV
>>> 
>>> [Billing system]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Narelle 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:26 Michael Biber <mbiber at ipv6forum.com.au> wrote:
>>>> Does this include Telstra resellers like Boost?
>>>> They haven't said anything to me so I presume not.
>>>> Mike
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 Feb 2016 7:46 pm, "Joshua D'Alton" <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:
>>>>> Apparently this Sunday is free data day, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> As a small gesture to say sorry, we’re giving you — as a Telstra mobile 
>>>>> customer — free mobile data within Australia this Sunday. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Whether you’re on a personal or business, pre-paid or post-paid mobile, tablet or mobile broadband plan, you will automatically receive free data, from ​midnight ​to ​midnight in your local Australian time zone ​Sunday ​14 ​February ​2016.                                                    
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Then there's this one:
>>>>>> http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telecom-nz-hands-out-cdma-phones-after-3g-network-failure-165889 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> and this one:
>>>>>> https://wirelesse2e.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/another-outage-more-lessons-geo-redundancy-couldnt-prevent-verizon-lte-service-disruption/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A lot of it has to do with the massive increase in signalling as each user terminal tries to re-register with the HLR/HSS (3G/4G respectively).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's why when you bring them back on you have to do it gradually... it is a highly reliable system generally and 4G is definitely more so than 3G.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Narelle
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 11 Feb 2016, at 6:55, TWIG Solutions wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Same thing occurred there, if and RNG failed, if the switch-over to the standby failed for some reason, the resulting registration storm caused the network to fall-over for 18 hours.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> <http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/att_collapse.html>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----------------------------------
>>>>>>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>
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>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Narelle
>>>>>> narellec at gmail.com
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