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Thunder Bay police set up 911 email as Canada-wide cellular outage continues
- ChoGGi 4y agoI'm curious if anyone knows the connection between Rogers and debit machines? It's been an entertaining day for me :)
- lfuller 4y agoThe Interac network uses Rogers for its backbone apparently.
- VoidWhisperer 4y agoIs there a technical reason that a debit system backend wouldn't be set up with some redundancies (ie not singlehomed to rogers) or is it just laziness/costcutting?
- err4nt 4y agospeculation, but hopefully grounded in truth. There are few networks in Canada, and many of the providers on these networks resell service on the network that's owned and operated by only a few (3? more? less?) companies
- Teever 4y agoYeah but Rogers isn't the biggest of the big networks, that's Telus and Bell.
- _3u10 4y agoThe system has redundancies… checkout Roger’s fiber map. This is a network problem, not a “connection” issue.
- VoidWhisperer 4y agoI meant redundancies as in 'if this network goes out, we have a backup network (on a different provider) we can switch to and continue processing transactions'. That said, I don't have the expertise to know how feasible something like that would be in this scenario
- randomdata 4y agoWord on the street is that they have a redundant network in place, but it is also supplied by Rogers. So more likely some technical incompetence combined with snake oil salesmanery.
- ifelsethenyeah 4y ago"Oookay, who fat-fingered the EBGP peering table this time?" Welp, everyone needs a DR/BCP plan for national and regional disasters of natural and human kinds that also involve cellular, network, fuel, and power outages at different areas. For example, perhaps the they need multiple cell carriers with independent backbones run by different companies.