Watching Verizon work is like a train wreck

[giza]

Here's the latest from my ISP:

UPDATE: After repairing the fiber cut on the street, Verizon discovered a failed OC12 card on their equipment in our Network Operations Center. They are currently working to replace that card.

First a fiber cut, then an OC12 card. Do I hear router? Any takers on a router failing next?

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

No, I suspect one of the muxes will go next.

[alphaggek.livejournal.com]

I think I'll go with a power problem..... :)

[camstone.livejournal.com]

Let's look at the Vagas odds tables, shall we?

1:1 - No more errors.
1:2 - Router replacement
1:5 - Firewall has issues with new hardware
1:20 - Spam trap has issues with the hardware installed
1:50 - Computers sieze from new software which exploits vulnerability in all versions of windows, and is installed in the router.
1:500 - Bill Gates calls and says he bought Verizon, and will be sending out a repair team from Inida.
1:1000 - G.W.Bush declares a state of emergency, and calls in the national guard... except no one shows up.
1:5000 - Cheney shoots the repairman in a "bizzare hunting accident."
1:10,000 - They repair the problem and apologize, offering a billing reduction for the time the system was down.

Place your bets!

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Phase of the Sun!

[me-is-1337.livejournal.com]

I'll take "repairman is delayed by hospital stay caused by Co-Worker D spraying Liquid Nitrogen on his genitals" in the pool please.

Salt. Fiber. Anthrocon.

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

If their router fails, it's because it was made by Sysco, #1 in the food distribution and wholesale market ;)

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

And yes, I do know that the correct company in the IT industry is spelled differently, and makes top-knotch equipment, if anyone thought differently :)

[nius.livejournal.com]

Well, having dealt first-hand with dead OC-12 cards...

I'll give them a *little* credit, and say that a large amount of network hardware is held together by magic glue. If you break link, the magic glue leaks out, and there's nothing you can do to put it back.

Try as you might, the circuit that worked perfectly for 6 years will just refuse to link after you decide to unplug that jumper and move it to a less crowded cable manager.

Then you spend the next six hours replacing every card in every device that touches that circuit, and eventually, you stir up enough new magic glue that suddenly the link lights glow.

Until next time...

[giza.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's what it's taking Verizon 2 hours to replace the card as of this writing.

[wolfspawn3.livejournal.com]

Or it could simply be a 'we are reporting multiple failures to buy us more time as we have no idea where the problem is'.

[scs-11.livejournal.com]

"I'll take 'Configuration Errors' for 100, Gene."

"And the question is: What is it that Verizon never admits to?"