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

[Phil Regnauld <regnauld () nsrc org>]

Joe Abley (jabley) writes:
> >     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.

        Correct - they need to transit at some point through the RIM servers.

        http://www.interworks.com/blogs/wlyles/2010/01/14/why-rim-outage-affects-users-corporate-bes

        That's just wrong on so many levels.

        Cheers,
        Phil