[ale] covad VoIP down...

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:46 -0500, Rob Fauls wrote:
> system is back up now...waiting on word as to what the cause of the 
> problem exactly was. as far as voip goes, our system was still 
> "working". while our t's went down, our phones were still going to 
> voicemail or being redirected to a secondary number. so as far as the 
> voip side goes, everything was fine.  for some reason, our data 
> connection itself was lost, and took a long time to get it back.  when
> i 
> know more, ill post.

Another problem with VOIP.  Your data link to the Internet becomes more
valuable.  

With DSL at a few locations I've learned to _not_ put any critical
service at those locations.  Instead I pay "Quality Services" formerly
known as E-Deltacomm to host those services.