[AusNOG] Fibre Cut in Sydney - Vocus

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Hi Christopher,

There is plenty of diversity in and around the landing station, which is
why the bulk of our international capacity remained available. If there is
a specific customer issue arising from this, I am more than happy to
discuss with you off list.

Cheers,
Damien.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Christopher Hawker <me at chrishawker.com.au>
wrote:

> Hello David,
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> CH.
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of David Trad <
> davidtradconsulting at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 22, 2018 1:30:44 PM
> *To:* Chad Kelly
> *Cc:* <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>; ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Fibre Cut in Sydney - Vocus
>
> You do realize that Vocus have no control over companies with side boarers
> right? Its that company obligation to do dial before you dig.
>
> And you do realize that Vocus was still operational with their diverse
> links right?
>
> Also you know that Vocus was not they only one to suffer from that cut
> right? SCCN and other carriers did as well.
>
> I don't think it be fair to target them on this occasion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David.
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar. 2018, 12:18 Chad Kelly, <chad at cpkws.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 3/22/2018 12:00 PM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>
> > It?s strange they only have one path from there dc to the landing
> station.
> No not really, this is Vocus we are talking about, the same company who
> had an entire DC go offline during a maintenance window.
> I know technology and infrastructure fails from time to time, but Vocus
> have not had a good run at all the past month or two.
> Regards Chad.
>
> --
> Chad Kelly
> Manager
> CPK Web Services
> Phone 03 5273 0246
> Web www.cpkws.com.au
>
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