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Re: Vonage service suffers outage


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 05:28:10 -1000


Amidst all the hoopla w.r.t. "port blocking" their service,
this outage couldn't have come at a worse time, methinks.

The outage on Friday "left about half of its 500,000
subscribers without phone service for about 45 minutes"
and "... was caused by a glitch with a software upgrade
on Thursday night."

http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0503/07/tech-109316.htm

Nice story, but it doesn't explain why they had a similar looking outage
at roughly the same time the day before.  Maybe it wasn't quite the "first
issue" they've ever had related to software upgrades.

of course none of us have ever had customer-affecting 'issues'
with software upgrades, system outages, ...

that's what makes this so newsworthy

randy


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