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There's really only one word that can be used to describe the current sorry state of IP backbone providers. That word is "pathetic."

I will spare you the details of how the following started — those reasons are totally irrelevant. Suffice to say that within a week I got two "maintenance" notifications on one of the transit circuits. Both were to be service-affecting: first one to be used to upgrade the software on the router; the second one to do something with the fiber the circuit rides on. Both were supposed to be about 30 minutes long.