[AusNOG] Tamworth Outage

[Jrandombob]

Pretty sure once they moved away from having to do the USO thing on POTS
lines they stopped bothering with batteries (and in many cases gensets).

We lost Telstra 4G (which being in rural Tas pretty much means nobody had
phone service at all) here for several days earlier this year because there
was significant damage to the power distribution network after a storm,
meanwhile the co-located Optus 4G infrastructure didn't miss a beat and NBN
had a genset out to the local FW tower within 24 hours...

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 7:58 AM DaZZa <dazzagibbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess the days of exchanges being built with enough
> battery/generator backup *and being regularly tested* went away at
> some point in the past.Probably when the focus of our lives moved from
> POTS to being all IP, but likely before that.
>
> While it's probably not fair to blame Vocus for this one - being it's
> a third party exchange (hi Telstra!), there should definitely be more
> focus on risk management in regard to power on critical infrastructure
> than there is.
>
> D
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 23:36, Bradley Amm <brad at bradleyamm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Vocus outage
> >
> > There is currently one outage affecting the Vocus Network
> >
> > Significant service disruption affecting Vocus Internet services located
> in Tamworth, NSW.
> >
> > 12/04/2023 19:48 AEST - Please be advised of a service disruption
> affecting Vocus Internet services located in Tamworth, NSW. Our T3 teams
> have been engaged to investigate and identify the cause of the disruption.
> An ETR will be provided once our initial investigation is complete. Further
> updates will be provided within the next 2 hours.
> > 12/04/2023 20:10 AEST - Power issue has been identified in our
> third-party provider's network. Their exchange has lost power and back-up
> generator has also failed. No ETR at this stage. We will provide further
> update as they become available.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On 12 Apr 2023, at 7:46 pm, Tim Dykes <ttdykes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Noticing some pretty major outages across Tamworth for multiple fixed &
> celular Telstra/Optus/NBN service types. Anyone have any further details?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tim Dykes
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