Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

Not related to Verizon or outages at all (though it certainly was going to
be a very expensive and large scale outage at the time), there's a
fascinating book about the group of investors and people who formed a new
group to acquire the "v1.0" Iridium network out of bankruptcy, turn it into
a DoD essential service/US government contractor, and run the second
corporate incarnation of Iridium.

https://www.amazon.ca/Eccentric-Orbits-Iridium-John-Bloom/dp/0802121683

https://groveatlantic.com/book/eccentric-orbits/

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:36 PM Aaron Groom <aaron.groom () entrywan com>
wrote:

> That will be an interesting read.
>
> I recently read the book "Rogers v Rogers" that covers the major Rogers
> Communications outage in Canada from a couple years ago.  The book is
> mostly biographical, but it lays a good historical foundation for those
> events.
>
> Anyone else have any good book recommendations?
>
> Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> writes:
>
> > Due to the scale of this I would expect an outage report to appear with
> the FCC in the next year.
> > I do think this highlights the increased frequency and impact of these
> outages.
> > Make sure you have backup plans for communications if one or more
> > fails. While my personal impact was near nil many people use telemetry
> > or navigation over cellular as a service and would have been
> > impacted. If I was for example an uber driver impacted I may not be
> > able to reach my destination, or I may not be able to summon one.
> >
> > As the market squeezes margins our tolerance for faults also
> > narrows. We saw this with supply chains 2020-present and I expect the
> > rate will increase vs decrease in the coming years where a disruption
> > has unexpected impacts.
> >
> > Role play these outages and test them where possible.
> >
> > - Jared
> >
> > Sent via RFC1925 compliant device
> >
> > > On Oct 1, 2024, at 12:16 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <andy () andyring com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now that this is behind us, I’m wondering if anyone has heard what
> actually happened.
> > > Does Verizon do after-action reports that we could find?
> > >
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