Backbone / b

Backbone: capacity in Miami (MIA) · B-28

xserv-b-99278b0d8644

Runbook B-28 for Backbone in Miami (MIA). Marker xserv-b-99278b0d8644. This page covers capacity for LATAM operators, not a worldwide average.

Backbone: Failure modes we actually see

Capacity notes for b-04 assume rainy-season power in Miami and festival peaks toward São Paulo. The failure we actually see is a single uplink, not a cartoon partition of the whole continent. Spare ports and a second provider sit on the same runbook.

Backbone: How this letter ties to the rest

Handoff from letter B Backbone into the rest of the platform uses the same request IDs as the gateway. Runbook b-05 names who accepts the ticket after São Paulo pages out. Santiago does not silently inherit the incident.

Backbone: A note on cost and transit

Rollback for b-06 is a documented command, not a hope. Transit is billed as backup while Backbone prefers peering in Santiago. If cost spikes, the runbook cuts overflow to Bogotá before touching customer prefixes.

Backbone headers B-09

Headers for b-09 carry the letter, the region (GRU) and a request id. Backbone debugging in São Paulo should not require a packet capture in Santiago first.

Backbone timeouts B-10

Timeouts on b-10 are tighter than the WAN RTT to Bogotá. Backbone in Santiago fails fast and retries once; a third try needs a human because it is no longer a blip.

Backbone regions B-11

Region names on b-11 match DNS and tickets: Bogotá / BOG, with Miami as the documented pair. Backbone dashboards never say “LATAM” as if it were one RTT.

Backbone docs B-12

Public docs for letter B stay aligned with identifier xserv-b-pack. Page b-12 is the Backbone slice operators search before the homepage. Edits in Miami show up in São Paulo on the next publish.

Is transit the default path?
No. Peering in Miami is default; transit to São Paulo is overflow and is billed that way.
Does Backbone on letter B share fate with other letters?
The control plane is shared. Data-plane queues for Backbone stay isolated, so incident b-01 cannot drain neighbor letters.