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 Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Why you should have redundant connections.... (May contain gloating)

No I love living in Wellington. We have TelstraClear Cable for 10MB internet and we have Citylink which both prod buttock.

On the weekend Citylink fell over..... Ouch!

TAB & Metservice were completely knocked offline, TradeMe & Stuff had over 25% of customers unable to reach them.

 The TAB’s punters couldn’t use the website for the whole day leading up to the game – that’s got to drive those customers away from that business channel. 

 “The MetService's weather website went down for six hours as a result of the CityLink failure…"CityLink went down and our backup link was overloaded by other similarly affected companies."

(http://www.stuff.co.nz/4229049a28.html)

 In contrast, Intergen customers were completely unaffected* thanks to our multiple physical connections to the interweb (Citylink & a dedicated fibre link directly to AT&T).

*Of course if the customer relied on Citylink for their Internet they'd have issues.

Intergen|Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:26:00 PM UTC|Comments [0]|