Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan A. Krenzischek wrote: I've only gotten the alert now ...9 times. Unless you keep turning your phone off, alerts have a serial number. Phones check the serial number for recently received alerts. Or so Android and iOS developers claim. If you are getting duplicate

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

There are dozens of WEA alerts every day, 365x7 days a year. If you leave a hidden burner phone turned on the other 364 days a year, it will make a noise from something else. Software mute buttons never mute everything. Some groups use once a year events to get publicity for their causes (

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Ryan A. Krenzischek wrote: Yes, I already tried rebooting several times. Perhaps a large hammer will fix it! At least I know I'll be well notified in an emergency. Everytime you turn off a mobile device, it clears the cache of previous alerts. You will receive the

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, nanog08 wrote: Move?  ...  :-) Off planet? All countries in the European Union, plus at least 35 other countries around the world, have or will soon implement their county-specific version of Emergency Mobile Alerts. Emergency alerts are built into all android, ios and

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Inter-agency bureaucracy. FEMA is part of Homeland Security. National Weather Service is part of the Commerce Department. Different departments of the government. Weather radios will active for a White House issued alert from the President. NOAA doesn't activate weather radios for FEMA t

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote: Well, today's alert still showed up as "Presidential Alert", so I guess the US hasn't quite finished changing over yet.  ^_^; (Samsung Galaxy phone) Yeah, Samsung is bad about releasing software updates for its older (a few months old) products. Thin

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Matthew Petach wrote: Ah, I didn't realize that was locally set on the device--I thought that was part of the message header in the message being sent out. Thanks for the clarification.  ^_^ Yep. That's why countries with a Prime Minister (or monarch or both) were complai

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, William Herrin wrote: On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 11:21 AM Sabri Berisha wrote: Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all remember what happened in Hawaii. For the national alert you can't. That's intentional. Although for some reason my silenced phone made

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

The Disability Advocacy Community has been extensively involved with CMAS/WEA since President Bush signed the WARN Act, passed by a republican house and republican senate, in 2006. The dozens of disability groups helped design the sound and vibration cadence (which is different than EAS), a

FCC and CISA host roundtable on Alerting Security Oct 30 2023

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB), together with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Emergency Communications Division, will host a public roundtable on the cybersecurity of the nation’s public alert and warni

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

165 Halsey (and most of its tenant) data centers is an older facility. Data center practices have changed over the decades, and terminlogy wasn't standardized until recently. The biggest FUBAR in telco and data centers is the difference between "redundancy" and "diversity." Redundant A/B

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

On Mon, 23 Oct 2023, James Jun wrote: "2N" generally means you're connected to completely different UPS system/complex and corresponding distribution systems for each of your circuit. This is ideal configuration for most critical loads. If you are in a single facility, even one with 2N+2 bac

Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Of course, every local carrier will be different, what are the current preferences for pre-wiring a customer demarc (NID, the box that hangs on the outside of the house, whatever the service provider calls it now)? 1. Nothing - telco/cable will do whatever the heck they want and wreck the o

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Around here, the local carrier seems to have stopped FTTH deployment. Instead, the carrier is convincing home builders not to spend money on demarc pre-wire. Wireless Home 5G service is all customers' need. Of course, the lack of demarc planning makes things more expensive for any post-cons

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

For *only* $1,000, the builder is willing to pre-install a smurf tube from the demarc to the central distribution point. But such a deal for 5G Since most fiber installs seem to use pre-connectorized cable, without affecting building structure integrity (i.e. 2-inch is too big according

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Sorry long, detailed message. TL;DR - Use 1-inch trade size smurf tube for new North America FTTH construction. North American FTTH may not have standards for the in-building access conduit between the demarc point, Minimum Point of Entry (MPOE) in the old terminology, and the dwelling's dis

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

Thanks Brandon Martin, I agree 1-inch smurf tube is overkill for FTTH. From my quick research into all things FTTH, which I didn't know anything a week ago :-) ... The regulators in other countries still believe they will create competition. The 25mm/32mm access duct (I'm going to make up a

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

My relative is buying a new house is a typical American surbuban tract housing development. Yep, I'm the extended family I.T. consultant. The marketing brochure calls it "custom home" but he only gets to talk to the developer's "design consultants", i.e. sales people. The developer has a sal

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023, Stan Barber wrote: That being said, I would ask if the home is being prewired for alarm services or not. If so, you could find an avenue to ask about other things. My sister and her husband just bought a new house outside of Dallas and it is coming prewired for RG6, wired ala

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

On 11/28/23 12:43, Owen DeLong wrote: I’ve never used ENT (never even seen that name, TBH). 1” EMT is readily available at Home Depot and Lowes out here as well as several reputable supply houses. The nice thing about promoting industry standards is clever products to meet those standards wi

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

I should have known better, network engineers don't work on the physical infrastructure very much anymore - memories of sitting on concrete floors crimping cable ends in to many IXPs :-) If you never seen or installed ENT Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing Conduit, also known as "smurf tube" --

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

You've misunderstood the goal. The intent is not to protect the fiber, but to make it easier for the field tech installing new service in a neat way through finished construction and concealled raceways, without cutting sheetrock or stapling exposed cabling across walls. Trying to prevent

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I think an important point for pre-wire and residential real estate developers to consider is also the conflicting needs of keeping things "neat and tidy" and last mile CPE location vs wifi coverage. The answer is always 5G - 5G - 5G. A 5G solution means

Re: "Lit" Buildings

On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Mike Hammett wrote: For those of you who list your network (usually wireline, but sometimes wireless) with third parties, are you supplying just the KMZ or lit buildings as well? If lit buildings, are you including residential? How are you defining near-net? In the ancient d

FCC rejects Starlink application for $900 million subsidy

FCC REAFFIRMS DECISION TO REJECT STARLINK APPLICATION FOR NEARLY $900 MILLION IN SUBSIDIES Applicant Failed to Meet Burden for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund The Federal Communications Commission today reaffirmed the Wireline Bureau’s prior decision to reject the long-form application of St

Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

350 Cermak Chicago is a "historic" building which means you can't change the visible outside. Someone had long discussions about the benefits of outside air economizers, but can't change the windows. Need to hide HVAC plant (as much as possible). I would design all colos to look like 375

NFPA 70 National Electrical Code 2026 first draft changes

The Code Making Panels for the NFPA 70 National Electrical Code meet for the last couple of weeks (Jan 15-26, 2024). One proposed change for 2026 is "Keeping the NEC Relevant - Is Now the Time to Modernize?" https://peg.atis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NEC-Correlating-Committee-White-Paper

Federal subsidy boosting internet affordability set to expire unless Congress acts | PBS NewsHour

The Affordable Connectivity Program will expire tomorrow unless renewed by Congress It won’t have an immediate impact but FCC will stop accepting new applications. Current applications will continue until existing funds run out. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-subsidy-boosting-i

EU Gigabit Infrastructure Act agreement - in-building infrastructure access

While I'm still asking a builder in the USA about pre-wiring new construction house The EU has included in-building infrastructure and fiber ready requirements in its new Gigabit Infrastructure act. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/02/06/gigabit-infrastruc

Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

Authentication by letterhead? Paper LOAs are unauthenticated documents, not worth the paper they are written on. Usually FAXed, which is even less authenticatable (is that a word?). Prosecutors are capable of using digital documents. Do it all the time with echecks, credit cards, ecommerce o

Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

.  Contractors need that. Global networks rarely have a contact appropriate for provisioning in a public facing database. On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 14:50 Sean Donelan wrote: Authentication by letterhead? Paper LOAs are unauthenticated documents, not worth the paper they are

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

The subdomain[dot]onmicrosoftp[dot]com domain seems to be almost 99% spammers riding on Microsoft's reputation. I've given up on any real email from those subdomains, and just block it completely. Reputable companies using Microsoft cloud mail usually have their own registered domains as r

RE: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, Travis Garrison wrote: This would be a company that has registered for an office365 account. Office 365 company accounts are registered as companyname [dot] onmicrosoft [dot] com. You then add domain aliases if you want to use your own preferred domain name. Microsoft "Know

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

Microsoft's corporate email systems appear to silently drop email from small domains (like mine). Yes, I jumped through the public hoops already. Microsoft may have a great Trust and Safety Team, but their corporate infrastructure doesn't seem to want to hear from outsiders. If the increasi

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

Yep, just had another one. Email to local election office silently vanishes because it uses Office365 Cloud email. Needed to use Gmail instead. On Tue, 12 Mar 2024, John Levine wrote: It appears that Sean Donelan said: Microsoft's corporate email systems appear to silently drop

Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

Microsoft is the only mail provider that exhibits this behiavor. And I've heard the same thing from other people using small domains. The Microsoft autobot response a few years ago said "the domain didn't send enough emails." I don't know why I would send more emails to a provider which d

Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

Should FCC focus on SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities? https://www.404media.co/email/79f7367c-bd3c-4bff-ac9f-85c738d08bec/ https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10427582404839/1 Additional comments from Kevin Briggs: "I have seen what appears to be reliable information related to numerou

Re: Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

Sigh, industry hasn't solved spoofing and routing insecurity in two decades. If it was easy, everyone would have fixed it by now. Industry has been saying 'don't regulate us' for decades.

Re: Should FCC look at SS7 vulnerabilities or BGP vulnerabilities

The FCC's job isn't to solve technical problems. Instead it is attempting to get CEOs, business managers and venture capital firms to include these public policy requirements as part of their business decision making. Impact business budgets and decision making to fix public problems. FCC

Re: Correcting national address databases?

Visit your local post office ask for the postmaster. They can’t fix it but should have a form to correct the database used by almost all shippers in the U.S. unfortunately may take 6 months to propagate changes. Can also call 1-800-275-8777 but usually local postmaster is helpful. > On May 29,

Re: Correcting national address databases?

Since I did address database software for public libraries for a couple of decades Addresses are complicated. In North American (USA & Canada) there are approximately 80,000 localities, counties, states and federal addressing authorities (mostly local building and planning departments)

Current diameter of the Internet?

What is the current estimated diameter of the Internet? Maximum (worst-case) RTT edge-to-edge? Most public latency data is now edge-to-cloud, not edge-to-edge. Cloud engineers have done a great job, and edge-to-cloud less than 1-sec RTT. Where have the long-slow pipes gone? https://www.cl

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

stationary satellite hops. On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, Sean Donelan wrote: What is the current estimated diameter of the Internet? Maximum (worst-case) RTT edge-to-edge? Most public latency data is now edge-to-cloud, not edge-to-edge. Cloud engineers have done a great job, and edge-to-cloud less tha

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

According to Cloudflare Latency under average utilization by continent North America 41 ms South America 46 ms Europe 34 ms Africa 108 ms Asia 84 ms Oceania 35 ms Not clear what is included in Cloudflare "continents." Oceania is listed with the 2nd hi

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

OMG, Not trying to solve Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Just trying to choose reasonable timeouts for my TCP packets :-) Middleware boxes suck -- its IETF week. On Mon, 22 Jul 2024, Mel Beckman wrote: *A. Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, authorized translatio

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

According to speedtest.net (Akamai has apparently stop publishing its data) Fixed Broadband (Global median): 93 Mbps (download) / 47 Mbps (upload) Mobile Broadband (Global median): 56 Mbps (download) / 11 Mbps (upload) By Country (fixed broadband) 1. Singapore 285 Mbps 159. Cuba 2.7 Mbp

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

Somewhere I have a first edition of Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated, in some box of books I can't find. Strangely, "3600 seconds" is one timeout value which doesn't exist in that chapter (or TCP). Yep, ISPs and middleware boxes use that value, often incorrectly. On Mon, 22 Jul 2024, Mel Beck

Re: Digicert revoking certain certs failing CNAME validation

Affects 83,267 certs impacting 6,807 Digicert subscribers. Less than 0.4% Digicert Domain Validated (DV) certs. As far as I know, the major browser vendors no longer show any user visible distinction between different types of certificate issuance validation. UI testing found users didn't

WP: Chinese government hackers penetrate U.S. internet providers to spy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/chinese-government-hackers-penetrate-us-internet-providers-spy/ Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoin

WWV Broadcast Outages

If any network operators still use WWV for time synchronization. Due to an electrical up-grade, Radio Station WWV will be off the air on all frequencies on February 21 and 22, 2017. The outages will occur between 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM Mountain Standard Time, and will not exceed 8 hours in durat

FCC emergency waiver: Jewish Community Centers Calling Party Number Identification

The FCC granted an emergency temporary waiver to telecommunication carriers serving Jewish Community Centers, allowing access to the Caller-ID (Calling Party Number Identification) normally blocked at the calling party's request (i.e. star-67). Although per call Call-Trace (i.e. star-57) and

Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

There must be a perfectly logical explanation Yes, people in the industry know where the choke points are. But the choke points aren't always the most obvious places. Its kinda a weird for diplomats to show up there. On the other hand, I've been a fiber optic tourist. I've visited many

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Rod Beck wrote: As someone who has sold a lot of capacity on Hibernia Atlantic, I must concur. There is a website showing where most of the Trans-Atlantic cables land on the West Coast of Britain at towns like Bude in Wales. Hiding is not an option. As far as I know, there

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Rod Beck wrote: And even in Kansas most fiber optic cables are probably next to roads, gas pipelines, and railways. Pretty easy to find. Unlike cable landing stations and satellite earth stations, which are documented in public FCC licenses, usually to 6 decimal points of

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Scott Christopher wrote: But, its odd to send diplomats to remote areas of the country, if you are not trying to survey geographic infrastructure in the middle of the country. It's just "for show." If they really wanted to be invisible, they could do so without using diplom

Hurrican Harvey - Network Status (FCC)

Hurrican Harvey DIRS report 5 radio stations out of service (WKNC, KKTX, KUNO, KKWV, and KAYK) 149,909 cable and wireline subscribers out of service (5 switching centers out of service, and 38 switching centers on backup power) 4% of cell sites out of service (Aransas, Reugio and San Patricio, T

Re: Hurricane Harvey - Network Status (FCC)

Hurricane Harvey DIRS report August 27, 2017: 17 PSAPs impacted, 1 out of service, 16 with partial service or re-routed to another PSAP At least 148,565 cable and wireline subscribers out of service (11 switching centers out of service, and 21 switching centers on backup power) 4.1% of cell si

Re: Hurricane Harvey - Network Status (FCC)

Tropical Storm Harvey FCC DIRS and FEMA Operations report August 28, 2017: Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts between August 25-28 issued by NWS Houston (and surrounding metro area) 154 tornado warnings 149 flood warnings 67 flash flood warnings 27 reported tornados 5 civil e

Hurricane Irma: U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

5 fatalities in U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico FCC doesn't have reliable reporting on Wireline and Cable service providers in either USVI or Puerto Rico. The assumption is large numbers of customers are without cable or wireline service. 870,000 customers (55% of the island) without po

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

Electric Power Florida: 6,117,0247 customer outages (59% of state) Puerto Rico: 368,682 customer outages (23.5% of territory) U.S. Virgin Islands: St. John: 100% customers without power St. Thomas: 99% customers without power (airport, hospital, and some areas on those sub

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

A couple of additional items Telecommunications - Free WiFi hotspots (where power available) Comcast Xfinity WiFi Charter Spectrum WiFi I expect other commercial WiFi hotspot service providers in Florida have (or will) have free access in the disaster areas. AT&T and Verizon are bri

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

A couple of folks asked about commercial colocation and data centers... There are about 100 major colocation and datacenters in Florida and southern Georgia. I've check the usual suspects, and none have posted outages. Directv and Dishtv "local-in-local" TV stations appear to be uninterrupte

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Sean Donelan wrote: A couple of folks asked about commercial colocation and data centers... There are about 100 major colocation and datacenters in Florida and southern Georgia. I've check the usual suspects, and none have posted outages. Directv and Dishtv &quo

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

Disclosure note: AT&T and Comcast public relations folks have been sending information about what they are doing for disaster recovery. I've included some of their information. From various official sources (FEMA, Dept. of Energy, FCC, NOAA, etc). Fatalities (FEMA) Georgia: 2 Florid

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

In my last summary, I made a comment I didn't know what the network disaster recovery team meant. AT&T recovery efforts 3000 recovery team members 14 Satellite Cell on Light Truck (SatCOLT) - 1 in Tallahassee, 2 in Naples, 4 in Florida Keys - 1 portable cell site St. Tho

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Randy Bush wrote: any word on cuba? Cuba status: (United Nations, Office of the Resident Coordinator) 10 fatalities. The country has recovered 70% of its power service. The seven provinces most affected are being assisted by other territories. It is expected that full s

Re: Hurricane Irma: Florida, Puerto Rico and U.S. VI

On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Sean Donelan wrote: The situation is still dire in some locations, but generally the disaster operations have moved to recovery and restoration. Unless something significant happens, this is the last summary report about Hurricane Irma from me. I said it would be the

Hurricane Maria: U.S. Virgin Islands suspends recovery efforts

U.S. Virigin Islands suspended hurricane recovery efforts on the islands in order to prepare for potential landfall by Hurricane Maria on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Hurricane Maria is expected to strengthen to a major hurricane by Monday evening. Storm preparation efforts on the U.S. VI

Hurricane Maria: Dominica complete communication outage 12 hours

Its very unusual to loose all communications with a country for almost 12 hours in 2017. During Hurricane Maria, essentially all communications were cut with the Commonwealth of Dominica at about September 19, 2017 at 4:00am local time. It took nearly 12 hours to re-establish any communication

Re: Puerto Rico just lost internet?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Daniel Brisson wrote: “Strongest storm of the century” just hit San Juan. The number of reachable networks in Puerto Rico is down by 50%. Puerto Rico still has connectivity to the island, but outside facilities and electrical grid is being damaged by Hurricane Maria (Cat

Re: Puerto Rico just lost internet?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Javier J wrote: How long usually till generators at cell sites run out of juice? Rough, every provider is different, backup power hierarchy: Neighborhood pole boxes: 1-4 hours, batteries only. May be re-charged with portable generators when safe to access area. There is l

Re: Hurricane Maria: Dominica partial communications restored

At Sept. 21, 2017 01:00 UTC, partial telecommunications service was restored to Dominica. However, essentially 100% of the island does not have electric service, cell service is still out, and most people do not have service. CDEMA/RSS has delivered 5 satellite telephones to the Dominica gover

Re: Puerto Rico just lost internet?

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Colin Johnston wrote: one ripe atlas probe is still green though It looks like the last Internet service provider to Puerto Rico just went down. Zero routes. Hopefully its just power, and they will be able to re-fuel and be back on line quickly.

Re: Puerto Rico just lost internet?

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Sean Donelan wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Colin Johnston wrote: one ripe atlas probe is still green though It looks like the last Internet service provider to Puerto Rico just went down. Zero routes. Hopefully its just power, and they will be able to re-fuel and be

Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

This summary status is a bit different. Instead it is a report about what we don't know, and estimate how much we don't know based on official reporting. The FCC DIRS report is based on outages reported by service providers. Almost no local providers have been able to file either a positive o

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Following up - there are three cable landing stations and 9 submarine cable systems connecting Puerto Rico. One of the cable landing stations experienced flooding, and shutdown its power system affecting some circuits. I haven't been able to determine how many submarine cable systems are af

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Reportedly most (All?) operational cellular carriers on Puerto Rico have activated "universal roaming" service. All working towers will accept roaming connections from any phone from any carrier (or no service provider). You may need to turn the phone off & on so it scans for a working signa

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

According to PREPA Net, the fiber subsidary of the Electric Power Authority, the power system for the Punta las Marías submarine cable station is back in service after flooding. I think Isla Verde and Punta las Marias refer to the same landing point. I don't know the status of individual su

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

The ILEC, Claro, is reporting all 24 central offices in Puerto Rico are now operating on generators, and maintaining re-fueling operations. The CO's in the (San Juan?) metro area have voice, data and long distance service including to the mainland. The CO's elsewhere in Puerto Rico have only

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Mike Hammett wrote: There are a bunch of WISPs waiting to go rebuild, but waiting for the clearance to do so. I'm not sure what clearances they are waiting for. If they are already in Puerto Rico, self-sufficient, and respect curfews and other emergency responders, they

Why San Juan National Weather Service RADAR is out of service

The National Weather Service office in San Juan Puerto Rico is back on line. They have posted pictures of the weather radardome, or rather what's left of the radardome after Hurricane Maria. https://twitter.com/NWSSanJuan/status/912082857518092288

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

As of this morning, the ILEC Claro is reporting 8 central offices have voice, data and long distance service operating, mostly in metro areas. This does not include outside plant or local loops serving customers. Central offices serving 55 of 78 municipalities have local voice service, no

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

It looks like someone kicked the cellular carriers public relations people into gear. Today, instead of the normal "we care" messages; they released statements providing more concrete details about their restoration activity in PR and USVI. Overall, 91.2% cell sites out of service in Puerto Ri

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Things are better and worse in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Help is needed, but anyone wanting to help in the field, be certain you understand what you would be doing, and whether you are actually helping or hindering on the ground efforts. From Washington Post: [U.S. FEMA Dire

Information about the national test of the Emergency Alert System

And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90% of the stations in the EAS web are down you may end up with nothing working. 6% of TV stations are operating in Puerto Rico 15% of radio stations are operating in Puerto Rico Nationally, there are about 28,000 cable syste

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the telecommunications network are likely completely drained. This makes restoration even more difficult, like a dead car battery needing a jump start. I am focusing on U.S. territories, but there is also disaster response

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the telecommunications network are likely completely drained. from the point of view of cell sites, wouldn't battery autonomy be measured in hours rather than days? I could see s

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Career federal employees are taught to write situation reports in very boring language with just the facts known. Nevertheless, after reading lots of situation reports, you start to notice when the bubureaucratic language changes. Perhaps the most famous was the commander of Apollo 13's report

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

The situation reports from Puerto Rico seems to be getting passed through public relations, so I'll try to add some context. Public Safety Primary Public Safety Answering Point (9-1-1) center generator ran out of diesel fuel. Switched to alternate PSAP. San Juan Police Department has

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

The Government of Puerto Rico has created a map of working cell sites in puerto Rico. I'm not certain about the source of the information. Cellular carriers usually object/refuse to release details about their operations. http://status.pr/Maps The map shows most working cell sites are in metr

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Phil Rosenthal wrote: Has anyone heard anything about Liberty Cablevision / AS14638? The first public statement I've seen from LibertyPR was yesterday. Their network was completely down. They've restored some of their main infrastructure, i.e. cable headends and main fibe

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Sean Donelan wrote: The first public statement I've seen from LibertyPR was yesterday. Their network was completely down. They've restored some of their main infrastructure, i.e. cable headends and main fiber connections. 100% of subscribers are out of service.

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: I haven't seen any reports of a Teamster union refusal. I *have* seen reports that only 10-30% of truck drivers are operational, because of one or more of: You're lucky. The bots have been pushing this very hard for several days. I don't know

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Sean Donelan wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: I haven't seen any reports of a Teamster union refusal. I *have* seen reports that only 10-30% of truck drivers are operational, because of one or more of: You're lucky. The bots have been pu

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

After two weeks it appears the situation is stabilizing (not getting worse) on Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. But recovery and logistics still seems very slow in both territories. A reminder, I am focusing on U.S. Territories, but other Caribbean islands are still recovering from Hurric

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Fatalities Puerto Rico: 34 storm related (last report Oct. 3) Media estimate at least 60 storm related deaths CDC mortatility rate for PR: average 80 deaths per day all causes U.S. Virgin Islands: 5 storm related (last report Oct. 3) 30 d

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: Statistics may look bad showing 100,000 without power. But if it is a single break by a branch it is easy to fix compared to having 1000 breaks by 1000 branches. So again, statistics don't give the full story on the real extent of damage. The FCC i

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

In addition to government and carriers working on the large-scale infrastructure to restore telecommunications in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and other Caribbean islands; I've found the following non-government organizations with people on the ground in the disaster areas working on commun

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

The Puerto Rico government has posted threee maps of cellular coverage and GPS coordinates of Cells on Wheels (COWs) in service. http://www.status.pr/Maps/ It still looks grim in Puerto Ricofrom a telecommunications perspective. Its will be an interesting after-action study. Other than "it

California wildfires - communications status

There have been many large wildfires in western states for the last couple of months, but most have been in less populated areas. Several folks have asked about cell phone problems because of the fires in California. Sonoma and Napa county sheriff departments are reporting widespread power o

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