Orange's Broadband Network Returned To Normal
Posted: 19th Oct, 2006 By: MarkJ
We overlooked this one yesterday afternoon, yet Orange (formerly Wanadoo) has reportedly managed to restore its broadband network following a lengthy outage. One individual claiming to work with the ISP has elaborated:
The Register also points to unrelated e-mail problems with Orange's servers after the provider was blacklisted by an anti-spam filter (Spamcop).
I work for Orange, in a role that has reasonable contact with the Alcatal guys who manage the Orange broadband infrastructure. The outage was caused by an "unauthorised" change to the network which one of the Alcatel guys performed.
As I understand it, the effect of this was a permissions problem with the hardware located out at the switches and exchanges, and now requires an engineer to visit each of the 4000+ sites to restart a few bits of kit. You will find that one by one the regions come back up, but at present approx 50 per cent of the LLU customers are still offline. I would imagine it will be another day or so before the rest of the customers are back online.
As I understand it, the effect of this was a permissions problem with the hardware located out at the switches and exchanges, and now requires an engineer to visit each of the 4000+ sites to restart a few bits of kit. You will find that one by one the regions come back up, but at present approx 50 per cent of the LLU customers are still offline. I would imagine it will be another day or so before the rest of the customers are back online.
The Register also points to unrelated e-mail problems with Orange's servers after the provider was blacklisted by an anti-spam filter (Spamcop).
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