Re: Vonage service suffers outage

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

> 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.

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