It seems that everyone is pointing out that Google (or any other company that might have been involved with an equipment or service outage) should have been fully redundant... especially during such a super-important game. What isn't being pointed out is that the -broadcaster- also didn't bother to have redundancy either. Other articles besides tfa seem to suggest there were issues with both Google Fiber in KC as well as a brief outage for Fox itself, unrelated to Google.
Also, tfa points out the 3/4 of the TV's in the city were tuned to the event. Does every TV in KC use Google Fiber for programming? Even if they did, the Fox outage caused all of them to black out anyway, right?
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It seems that everyone is pointing out that Google (or any other company that might have been involved with an equipment or service outage) should have been fully redundant... especially during such a super-important game. What isn't being pointed out is that the -broadcaster- also didn't bother to have redundancy either. Other articles besides tfa seem to suggest there were issues with both Google Fiber in KC as well as a brief outage for Fox itself, unrelated to Google. Also, tfa points out the 3/4 of the TV's in the city were tuned to the event. Does every TV in KC use Google Fiber for programming? Even if they did, the Fox outage caused all of them to black out anyway, right?