Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/29/20 15:42, Darin Steffl wrote: Oh they'll get plenty of support calls still, almost all about wifi issues. They'll be connected to 2.4ghz on an old device, run a speedtest and only get 30 mbps and complain they're not getting 950 mbps on their free connection. WiFi issues will alw

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/29/20 18:42, Aaron Wendel wrote: Oh, we still get calls about speed issues. It's always wonderful when someone puts their own 10 year old Linksys WRT54G and double NATs behind our CPE then sends in a speed test wondering why they're only getting 10Mbits on their Gbit line.  We get tho

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/29/20 18:50, Aaron Wendel wrote: The majority of our customers are still on Brocade MLXs.  We're in the process of upgrading all our equipment to Arista switches to accommodate the increased demand for 40G and 100G ports as well as implement 400G ports. Unfortunately, switch pricing

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/29/20 19:00, Mike Hammett wrote: People love throwing their own router behind whatever Internet connection they have. It almost never fails to cause a problem. I'd only do it if I could guarantee the ISP's CPE will run in Bridge mode, or if I can get access to their router to fiddle w

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-30 Thread Mark Tinka
On 12/29/20 21:44, James R Cutler wrote: Supplying any configurable residential CPE would not necessarily be cheaper. The tracking and accounting for the hardware and qualifying said hardware, not to mention truck rolls for hardware updates, could well be more costly than fielding support c

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Sean Donelan
Its impressive for nearly all (not all) service was restored in central Tennessee, southern Kentucky, and northern Alabama within a few days. It took months to repair Puerto Rico telecommunications after Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Puerto Rico lost over 95% of telecommunication services, althou

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, Peter E. Fry wrote: 911 services are certainly not treated as critical as the public is led to believe. Not that anyone here is surprised by this, but hopefully positive change can come out of this otherwise horrible event. The folks on this list likely know where the centr

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:13 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > The folks on this list likely know where the central Tennessee backup > tandem office is located. Although its semi-public knowledge, I avoided > mentioning its location until the immediate threat passed. LATAs don't > have much legal meaning

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-30 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 10:41:43PM -0700, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > And if the last 15 years has shown us anything, it is that when you > can't get past the auto-attendant and talk to a real human, and if > that person can't talk to you like a person instead of reading scripts > at you, your stress l

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-30 Thread Ben Cannon
It’d be real interesting to open-source this somehow, produce a useable open or quasi open (maybe curated somehow) reputation score for email. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications comp

Re: Where do your 911 fees go and why does 911 fail

2020-12-30 Thread Blake Dunlap
Yeah there wasn't a lack of options for fail over. I suspect there was a lack of care to plan or test for them by many parties. Regardless, I personally have backed off really blaming bell for this one other than the cell towers going down. If you can't happily lose a campus for a week, it's the de