"We Take Down the Network Four Times a Year" [telecom]

This post on Reddit may explain some things ... (mod)

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We take down the network 4 times a year. Does your enterprise also batch up disruptive changes like this?

Like the title says, we arrange with our business customers for their applications and services to be unavailable for several hours over a weekend, 4 times a year. We pay so much for redundant networking gear that I feel like this is a backwards way of doing things.