What does it mean by no link to other cities?

[deltaechov]

Since yesterday night there was no internet (no WAN IP at all). In the morning, it started working with lots of packet drops and tons of latency. Called the local NIB they say FTTH is completely down because they don't have any link available to other cities (Aurangabad, Mumbai, etc).

What does it mean by no link to other cities? Did they even run out of backup links? or There are too many connection that the network is congested, hence the word no link available.

I assumed it to be some kind of uplink for internet.

 

[shashankb]

What they meant to say is (just an assumption) If a city A has FTTH services in the area , there are multiple links from A to city B and city C to have redundancy and reduce failovers. In your location that may not be there.

BSNL officials do not actually know the meaning of technical words , so they do not mean what they say atleast most of the times. They could have meant something different also

 

[Gaurav15]

I think it means uplink is down. The exchange doesn't have connectivity to outside network due to some technical issue