tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15591336.post7411982457032413277..comments2011-10-13T19:56:44.003+01:00Comments on Ramblings of a Sysadmin: Blackberry dual outage highlights the need for red...Gary Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10034475611283036532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15591336.post-87722291145042936452011-10-13T06:05:16.586+01:002011-10-13T06:05:16.586+01:00This reminds me of a major outage by our second bi...This reminds me of a major outage by our second biggest Telco.<br /><br />The whole state of Queensland was offline for a day. This include phones, mobiles and internet. They didn't specifically have a single point of failure. <br /><br />The main fibre across the boarder was cut by road works. All traffic was routed to the secondary link. Unfortunately this went down to a maintenance fault Tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09835615846498123076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15591336.post-74213132550845087722011-10-12T09:48:54.176+01:002011-10-12T09:48:54.176+01:00RIM's major selling point for the mass BlackBe...RIM's major selling point for the mass BlackBerry market is the BIS connection and the BBM service (This is what's making BlackBerries very popular with teenagers lately - text messaging on steriods). These outages don't really help them shift new £500 handsets to customers on the premise of a wonky system.<br /><br />I'm surprised that a production environment system wouldn'tJBnoreply@blogger.com