{"id":5830,"date":"2007-08-22T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ixia-on-skype-outage.html"},"modified":"2007-08-22T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T19:50:08","slug":"ixia-on-skype-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ixia-on-skype-outage.html","title":{"rendered":"Ixia on Skype Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"
You may have seen my recent blog post about what we learned from the Skype outage<\/a>. I have had much feedback about this article and I found it important enough to publish in an upcoming TMC magazine. I won’t tell you which as I would like you to read them all of course. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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One of the letters I received regarding the post was actually something the author allowed me to publish. The quantity of mail I receive where the author wants me not to publish the comments is astounding actually.<\/div>\n
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The e-mail below agrees with my thoughts regarding the Skype outage and since it comes from Ixia, a testing company no one should be surprised. It was sent by Rob Adler one of the best of the best in PR. <\/div>\n
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Here is the letter:<\/div>\n
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Hi Rich,<\/div>\n
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FYI. Your article was the subject of much discussion at Ixia. I thought that you might be interested in a comment from Pierre Lynch who is director of wireless and IMS at Ixia:<\/div>\n
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The recent problems with Skype underline the fact that IP communications is growing more complex and interrelated. Seemingly innocent changes can have untended and significant effects. <\/div>\n
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VoIP, by its nature, is more vulnerable to negative impacts because it runs on a converged network along with a myriad of other services and functions. Never before would an Operating System security patch cause a large VoIP service disruption. *<\/div>\n
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Any change to the entire configuration, not just the VoIP functions themselves, needs to be tested before it is deployed. That’s why testing is so critical to keep a business up and running.<\/div>\n
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Hope all is well with you. <\/div>\n
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Best,<\/div>\n
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Rob<\/div>\n
Robert Adler
\nPR@vantage – Communicating Technology<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Again this highlights the need to be proactive when deploying IP communications. You will find Ixia and hundreds of other companies in the IP communications space at ITEXPO<\/a> in a few weeks in Los Angeles, CA. I hope to see you all there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may have seen my recent blog post about what we learned from the Skype outage. I have had much feedback about this article and I found it important enough to publish in an upcoming TMC magazine. I won’t tell you which as I would like you to read them all of course. \ud83d\ude42  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,199,197,188,156,203,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}