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March 10, 2010
Three things to learn from cable outages– also tagged ,

An outage yesterday from one of the nation’s largest cable providers had a lot of folks hurting.  Voice and data went down, so hoards of people were disconnected and businesses were literally dead in the water. Web users aren’t unfamiliar with outages; they happen. YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook have all recently dealt with service interruptions, and user communities aren’t quiet about them. Some things we can take away from this: 1.  It’s a good idea [...Read More]