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Cambridge city Web site goes kablooie

By adamg on Sun, 03/07/2021 - 11:09pm

According to the city's daily e-mail today:

As of 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 7th, the City of Cambridge is experiencing City network issues that are impacting the City's website.

Services not housed on the city site, such as the systems for paying parking tickets, remained up.

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Comments

By ScottB on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 11:03am.

The recent Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerability.

By anon on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 12:42pm.

Will this convince the city to get some more Internet and cable providers besides Comcast and Verizon DSL?

By cybah on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 2:44pm.

Hard too. Not when cities and towns are getting free internet for offices and schools from the providers. Happens in my town.

But further... the question is WHO would be that company? A company who has enough $$ to rollout infrastructure and has an interest in doing so?

(Nope, don't say RCN)

*crickets*

right because there are no other companies willing to do so. I sat on my towns cable board meetings and watched this come up. We tried to get someone else.. and it fell on deaf ears. There really is no one out there except Comcast or Verizon (in our area at least).

Now if someone reading this has a boat load of cash and wants to try this, give me a shout. I have a way to reduce infrastructure costs.

By anon on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 9:28pm.

Out in the San Francisco Bay Area there is a local provider called Sonic deploying their own FTTH network. They were awesome - good customer service, great prices, locally owned and operated. They were a godsend compared to AT&T or Comcast.

By ScottB on Mon, 03/08/2021 - 3:56pm.

You have to build out your own wires/fiber/hardware and either pay $$$ to bury it or deal with the bureaucracy of getting it on the existing poles where there's an above-ground option. And then you have to convince enough people to switch from the incumbents to make back the many millions you spent building out the network. Plus cities don't like it if you skip over the lower-margin customers (i.e. poor people) to lower the cost of the build-out.

The reason why Verizon finally went forward with a FiOS buildout in Boston was because they wanted to build a fiber backbone in the city for their 5G mmWave wireless service, and they got the rights to deploy cells on streetlights and other public property. It's not because they thought they were going to make a bunch of money fighting Comcast.

I'm rooting for Starry in the hopes that their wireless approach will be able to shake up the market; theoretically their cost to build out network infrastructure should be a lot lower since they don't have to run wire/fiber past every place they want to serve.