[jtchang]

> The July 2022 outage was not the result of a design flaw in the Rogers core network architecture.

Talk about some grade A gaslighting here. Reading the post mortem they first tell you it wasn't a design flaw then say they routed all their data through one core router ( including a lack of a management network). Then they say they are going to fix things by separating out the wireless and wired traffic.

Why would you fix things if it wasn't a design flaw?

Out of band access is like resilient architecture 101. Hell even homelabs generally have some way to do it. It's appalling that Rogers didn't have a way to access the core IP routers out of band. Yes it might mean having to use a competitors infrastructure but they ended up having to do it anyway. And with the failure of the service now all the infrastructure providers are under additional scrutiny. Rogers should be striking some agreements with other providers to carry core traffic in case of an outage such as in this DR situation. For example Visa, MC, Amex all have agreements in place to process each others auth data in case the other party goes down. The thinking here being an outage for credit cards makes everyone look bad.