Why does a RIM outage cause web browsing/email to go down?

[Ns1]

If you don't own a BlackBerry yourself, chances are you know somebody who does. And if that person lives in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America or South America, they're probably quite unhappy with RIM at the moment. This week's service outage began with a server failure in the UK, and spread like wildfire to Africa and the Middle East, before continuing on to parts of Asia, the US, Canada and a good portion of South America. This is only the latest BlackBerry service outage for RIM, bringing email, BBM and web browsing services to a halt. But with BlackBerry services playing a critical role in real-time business and government communications, any interruption is unacceptable, and costly for all.

I mean RIM isn't a service provider right? If iCloud went down I'd still expect to be able to browse the net, get my email, etc...

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Because most of web browsing/email goes through the Blackberry servers.

 

[Ns1]

Because most of web browsing/email goes through the Blackberry servers.

sounds...fail?

If I'm connecting to google why does it go Device -> Provider -> RIM-> Google, instead of Device -> Provider -> Google?

 

[Red Storm]

I believe security?

 

[Doppel]

RIM has the best browsing security bar-none. In fact, not only can nobody else get at what you're browsing, but neither can you.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

RIM has the best browsing security bar-none. In fact, not only can nobody else get at what you're browsing, but neither can you.

I see what you did there. Lol.

 

[badb0y]

My GF can't even make calls...

 

[Deeko]

sounds...fail?

If I'm connecting to google why does it go Device -> Provider -> RIM-> Google, instead of Device -> Provider -> Google?

Security, compression. Also, BIS/BES provides push notifications for non-push email, applications like Facebook and Twitter, etc. Hence, if BIS goes down...most of your phone goes down.

The good news is, BIS doesn't going down very often.

 

[Ns1]

The good news is, BIS doesn't going down very often.

but when it does, man does it go down

 

[thomsbrain]

Blackberrys are the only hardware where the internet really can go down. Glad those days are over for those of us who moved on to modern phones.

 

[Deeko]

Blackberrys are the only hardware where the internet really can go down. Glad those days are over for those of us who moved on to modern phones.

Well that's not true. Not too long ago Verizon had a massive LTE outage, I'm sure Thunderbolt owners weren't too pleased.

 

[J-Money]

RIM has the best browsing security bar-none. In fact, not only can nobody else get at what you're browsing, but neither can you.

That's hilarious. :thumbsup:

 

[gsaldivar]

Well that's not true. Not too long ago Verizon had a massive LTE outage, I'm sure Thunderbolt owners weren't too pleased.

3G kicked in.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Sounds a bit like Opera's Turbo? Except you can still browse with Turbo disabled...