Perhaps another reason to consider SDWAN and circuit diversity
CenturyLink says it’s in contact with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and will cooperate with its investigation into the telco’s nationwide outage that major services for numerous consumers across the country - outage included VoIP, IP, transport, and even 911 services.
see the article at Channel Futures
Even the biggest and the best are not immune to human error and major disruptive outages. This is an important and all-to-real case for diverse internet connectivity and why the proper SDWAN solution is now a mission critical solution.