Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

[Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote:

> Joe Abley (jabley) writes:
> > On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote:
> >
> > > Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-)
> >
> > The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services 
> > that use the core as a simple transport and shift the processing intelligence to the edge have different, 
> > less-dramatic failure modes.
>
>       This is not the case for corporate customers with dedicated servers,
>       AFAIU.

I'm no expert, but my understanding is that at some/most/all traffic between handhelds and a BES, carried from the 
handheld device through a cellular network, still flows through RIM.


Joe