I think you missed the entire point, the outage in the article was caused by a Cisco update gone wrong, its the switch hard and software they make… If its an update or a power outage isn’t relevant, it can happen to everything,
And i literally said the only actually 99.99% reliable things are long distance radio and satellite. None of these are usually hooked up to a the grid, unless you need a relay station for the radio.
The thing is that you’re both right: your landline at your home would continue to work during a power outage, assuming the central office still had power or there wasn’t a mechanical failure there. And if the CO went down, your phone would stop working. And this is a case of the CO going down.
When the power goes out at your house, cool, your street/neighborhood cool, the switch, you are offline.
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I think you missed the entire point, the outage in the article was caused by a Cisco update gone wrong, its the switch hard and software they make… If its an update or a power outage isn’t relevant, it can happen to everything,
And i literally said the only actually 99.99% reliable things are long distance radio and satellite. None of these are usually hooked up to a the grid, unless you need a relay station for the radio.
The thing is that you’re both right: your landline at your home would continue to work during a power outage, assuming the central office still had power or there wasn’t a mechanical failure there. And if the CO went down, your phone would stop working. And this is a case of the CO going down.
Remember the northeast blackout of 2003? My landline still worked fine…
Because the switch still had power. And no, im in Germany i don’t know every minor thing about us history…
Just read the thread.