@cjd @teknomunk @bot there's a lot of gray area between a perfectly functional globally-routable, always-on internet and total internet failure.
when your ISP is calling distributor after distributor trying to find switches or transceivers or cards for the CMTS/DSLAM and nobody can give an estimate of when they'll be restocked, that's gonna be a problem. best case scenario they've got a large inventory of equipment that some dork with a MBA hasn't discovered and demanded to liquidate in the name of this quarter's profit. otherwise they'll have to look at finding equipment from a different manufacturer, which is a real challenge when you have thousands of techs trained in your current system. is an adtran router really that different from a cisco? not at all, but managing them at scale is the challenge.
meanwhile, everyone you want to make a transaction with is also struggling to find hardware.
>sorry, the payment processor we use for crypto is having an outage
>sorry, the credit card machine is broken and our vendor won't have a replacement for 3 weeks
>sorry, the e-commerce platform we use is having intermittent connectivity problems
>sorry, our server broke last week so we're taking orders by hand and only accepting cash