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Blackberry Network is Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Brian writes "According to CNET and others, "A system failure at Research In Motion has affected BlackBerry users in the Western Hemisphere, a news channel reported on its Web site late on Tuesday. The infrastructure failed on Tuesday night, and e-mails were not being delivered to the handheld devices.""

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  1. There's some other coverage on this.... by 8127972 · · Score: 5, Informative

    .... In the following locations:

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070418.wblackberry18/BNStory/Business/home
    http://www.wnbc.com/news/12339359/detail.html

    But I can verify that their network is up (sort of) and Engaget.com confirms this:

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/blackberry-o utage-update-its-kinda-up-253214.php

    So YMMV.

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  2. Not quite 'Western Hemisphere' by Peregr1n · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's fine here in the UK, and the rest of Europe. As far as I can tell it's the US server, which 'only' serves the USA and Canada. As mentioned by others though, one point of failure destroying such a large portion of the network is bad planning at the very least!

  3. More Info On Outage and Status by Philosinfinity · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was on RIM's rolling conference call last night and received some additional information. It seems that somehow they lost connectivity in their NOC. When they failed over to a co-lo they couldn't get the SRP communication up and running, causing all BES to fail in their connection to RIM. Fast forward a few hours and SRP is back up, but they cannot get critical components for email delivery to connect to their DB. Fast forward a few more hours and they get this up and running also. Currently, Sprint and Nextel are up and running, but the GPRS/EDGE service providers are still not receiving consistent mail flow.

  4. Re:BES users potentially not affected? by Philosinfinity · · Score: 4, Informative

    RIM lost their primary NOC last night. Your BES transmits data to their NOC including mailflow routing and SRP information. This issue affects the Americas entirely and is currently fixed for Sprint and Nextel. GPRS/EEDGE providers are still unable to contact back to RIM at the present time. So, if you are a Sprint or Nextel shop, this would explain why you are not experiencing the issue at this time. However, everyone was experiencing it from 6:30PM CDT to about 3:00AM CDT.

  5. Re:BES users potentially not affected? by Philosinfinity · · Score: 4, Informative

    NOC = Network Operations Center
    RIM = Research In Motion
    BES = Blackberry Enterprise Server
    SRP = Server Routing Protocol
    GPRS = General Packet Radio Service
    EDGE = Enhanced Data GSM Environment
    IHBT, HAND

  6. New service outage updates at ZDNet by russjourn · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is Russell Shaw. I do the BlackBerry beat blog for ZDNet. I've just called all the carriers, and RIM, and have just posted the latest at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/blackberry/?p=135