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Re: Fiber cut in SF area
From: Ravi Pina <ravi () cow org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:38:09 -0400
While OT the news reports indicated ATMs were offline and many credit card processing machines were down. This is no big shock because many ATM networks are on frame relay and POS credit card machines use POTS lines. The outage also impacted mobile service too if it hadn't been said. I hope we can put this thread to rest soon. -r On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 04:25:26PM -0700, Mike Lyon wrote:
Anyone know how banks in the Bay Area did through this? I wonder how many banks went dark and whether they had any backup plans/connectivity. Me thinks its doubtful. I also wonder if the bigger pharmacies such as Longs, Walgreens, Rite-Aid, Etc had thought about these kinds of issues? I personally doubt it. I bet you they went dark along with everyone else. Unfortunate. The funny thing is that the California lottery would be somewhat immuned to this kind of disaster as they actually use Hughes VSAT at every single retailer. Sorry for the random thoughts... -Mike
Current thread:
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area, (continued)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Carlos Alcantar (Apr 09)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Geo. (Apr 09)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area George William Herbert (Apr 09)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Mike Lyon (Apr 09)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Carlos Alcantar (Apr 09)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Mike Lyon (Apr 09)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Roger Marquis (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Jorge Amodio (Apr 11)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Sean Donelan (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Mike Lyon (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Ravi Pina (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Roy (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Mike Lyon (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Jorge Amodio (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Roy (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Joel Jaeggli (Apr 11)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Peter Beckman (Apr 13)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Crist Clark (Apr 13)