[AusNOG] Tamworth Outage

[Tim Dykes]

Looks like it just died again.


Tim Dykes

On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 at 08:55, Jrandombob <jrandombob at darkglade.com> wrote:

> 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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