[AusNOG] Telstra mobile down "nationwide"

Mon Feb 15 21:51:25 EST 2016

Good point, average vs peak usage!

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Luke Thompson <
luke.thompson at inksystems.com.au> wrote:

> 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>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----------------------------------
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Narelle
>>>>>> narellec at gmail.com
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