Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages

2017-10-17 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 2017-10-17 17:43, Mike wrote: > trying to address. We notified ATT of our need and only days later, > without followup response, it was suggested that we somehow don't have > the legal authority to install microwave My reaction would have been to call local mayor, mayor in twon where you try

Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages

2017-10-17 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi Mike, Thanks for sharing the story in what must be quite a difficult time. You mention that Level3 also has presence in the county, including their own independent route. Did they also suffer an outage during this latest incident? If not, then why did their connection not allow at least some

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2017-10-17 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
On 10/17/2017 5:33 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > you know, the Sci-Hub folk could fix this themselves... with some > authentication requirements... and probably by just unplugging from > the intertubes? *Hi Chris:*Apart from what the court's dictate(s) will be in technical and/or non-techni

Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages

2017-10-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
Out of curiosity, why weren't there any existing emergency/last-resort microwave links already in place? It seems to be known that this cable is a single point of failure ahead of time. Were there previous plans to set up any microwave links that got put on the back burner or canceled? Is th

Northern California fires and telecomm outages

2017-10-17 Thread Mike
Hello fellow operators, The recent northern California fires wiped us out along with many other service providers and services including cellular, landline, e-911, cable and the like and I feel it's of operational concern the fragility of the telecommunications networks that link us toget

Re: F Y I

2017-10-17 Thread Christopher Morrow
you know, the Sci-Hub folk could fix this themselves... with some authentication requirements... and probably by just unplugging from the intertubes? On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA) wrote: > > Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub > The American Chemi

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2017-10-17 Thread Robert Mathews (OSIA)
Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines. By Diana Kwon | October 4, 2017 http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles

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2017-10-17 Thread Aaron Gould
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Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

2017-10-17 Thread Joe Hamelin
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > It would be creepy if an emergency alert was too targetted. It may be > better to keep it larger than a mile radius, rather than a single house. > Get out! The tornado is calling from your house! -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, +1

Re: Calgary <-> Toronto 100% Canadian Fibre Resiliency on failover

2017-10-17 Thread Alyssa Moore
Regarding TransCanada: I recently read they are only just beginning to experiment with fibre optic monitoring systems for leak detection on short stretches of feeder pipeline in Alberta. The original plans for the RoW on the Northern Courier project (set to finish construction this year) included

RE: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

2017-10-17 Thread Keith Medcalf
> ... smart speakers ... Do not we need to find intelligent life on earth before we can find "Smart Speakers"?