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We have dual redundant links via separate physical hardware from our side to our Tier 1 ISP. We unexpectedly discovered their equipment is a single point failure.
Our Tier 1 ISP has just confirmed hardware failure of the upstream router (after 16 hours!) and will provision new replacement device once it has been shipped to site.
I wonder why the OSM team isn't calling the ISP out by name. Not having on-site spares at a Tier 1 is just, insane.
Amazingly, this isn't the first time I've heard of this happening.
Charging for a redundant line, then discovering that it actually wasn't one day when it goes down.
"We paid for a redundant line but it wasn't redundant!"
'Sure it was. They just went to the same router.'
Can you imagine the straight face that tech must have had to keep?
I wonder why the OSM team isn’t calling the ISP out by name.
Because this would open up OSM for defamation (and hinders a commercial resolve). It doesn't solve anything right now.
TL;DR
The OSM team is very small and constrained heavily by financials. They had a single ISP which acted as a single point of failure. They are moving to a new ISP but they expect the outage to last until Wednesday
SL;SR
The OSM team had redundant lines to the Tier 1 ISP, but the ISP bridged them into the same hardware (not a normal or expected thing).
That sounds like a very silly thing to do.
It sounds like a normal ISP
