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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This isn’t the first time Vocus have lost power both A and B feeds to a DC.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Happened in NSW I believe a year or two back.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The fact they lost both A and B feeds is just frankly bad design and should never happen.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">That said this is why anything critical shouldn’t be housed in a single Datacentre and should be load balanced between a few or at the very least any decent business grade provider should be able to provide you with
backup connectivity in the case of internet. Even 4G or 5G backup connectivity is better than nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">This isn’t hard to organize for most business grade providers and is the difference between a proper business grade provider and one selling business services on a residential grade network.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Any decent provider should be able to give you multiple Fibre links if required as well.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">For redundancy I’d go NextDC M2 as that is on a totally separate power grid or even Micron21 for primary both these facilities are tier 4 so you can’t go wrong.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I certainly know Micron21 have backup facilities that work at any rate, I actually thought Vocus had sold and was getting out of the Datacentre space altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D5156;background:white">Equinix facility in port Melbourne is decent as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">I’d go </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4D5156;background:white">Equinix or NextDc or both before Vocus for reliability. The Vocus Fibre network is still ok as
you get a few months free if you contract for long enough and it does the job. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Regards Chad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">From: Luke Thompson <<a href="mailto:luke.t@tncrew.com.au">luke.t@tncrew.com.au</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">To: Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>>, Chris Wright<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <<a href="mailto:chris@securityshift.com">chris@securityshift.com</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Cc: "<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Aussie Broadband Outage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Message-ID:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> <<a href="mailto:186d82f4918.283d.934dbec5914d2454830359510b9fa213@tncrew.com.au">186d82f4918.283d.934dbec5914d2454830359510b9fa213@tncrew.com.au</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Given the commonality of outage type, it's smelling like civil or grid problems isn't it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Vocus and Equinix losing power over both rails, optical links dropping, etc
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">sounds like a major problem in the earth or at a dist/sub station. Curious
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">to learn the root cause.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Chad Kelly
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Phone 03 52730246<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Web https://www.cpkws.com.au<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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