-----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@hopcount.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:06 PM To: Phil Regnauld Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide
On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote:
Joe Abley (jabley) writes:
On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote:
Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-)
The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of
processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the core as a simple transport and shift the processing intelligence to
You are correct. The BES uses PSKs to talk to RIM's servers, which then uses them to talk to the devices over the carrier networks. All of this was in complete failure mode until sometime overnight when it appears to have all started flowing again. Someday either Google or Apple will get off their rear ends and roll out an end to end encrypted service that plugs into corporate email/calendar/workgroup services and we can all gladly toss these horrid little devices in the recycle bins where they belong. Jamie the
edge have different, less-dramatic failure modes.
This is not the case for corporate customers with dedicated
servers,
AFAIU.
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that at some/most/all traffic between handhelds and a BES, carried from the handheld device through a cellular network, still flows through RIM.
Joe