911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
I'm unable to read the article on my phone (ad?) so I apologize if it is answered there, but why is this a long lasting problem?  My past two or three (not sure) workplaces have had to failover to alternate providers for office traffic when something broke in the primary, and both had contracts in place and the technical infrastructure to do so in relatively short order.  (I don't want to ignore the pre- and intra- effort by ops, I'm just saying it paid off)<p>Is this outage just breaking those places that didn't have such things (as a result of insufficient budget or skill)? Is there some now-regrettable contract(s) that prevented that from being in place?<p>Why is a system that saves lives working without the backup that systems that dont dictate life are?  While I understand that govt has both budget and hiring issues, i've worked in state govt and there are definitely some highly competant admins to be found, so I wouldn't assume that is the problem without word from someone with more detailed knowledge into this particular problem.