Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy…I’ll say it again Redundancy.

The rep from my ISP just called and asked me how my Internet and WAN connections were doing.  He seemed taken aback by my answer of just fine.  Apparently, someone cut some fiber somewhere and took out our entire county.

Except us.

I had a hunch this call would be coming.  My CIO had been waiting at my office when I walked in the door this morning (a little late, too!  **gulp**).  She asked a very similar question, but I informed her that from what I could tell everything was working just fine.  I’d not received any automated outage notifications either from our ISP or from any of our internal network monitoring devices.  She’d heard from some collegues at the local community college that they were down and they wanted to know our status.  I told her I’d look at our systems and let her know, but at the moment all is working and as far as I could tell we never went down, even for a blip.