[gfitz]

The nature of this downtime is quite severe. How are Googlers resolving this if their internal communications are down?

[BossingAround]

There are other ways to deliver packets... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

[h43k3r]

There is IRC as backup

[Gigablah]

I recall that their SREs use IRC?

[q3k]

Yep. At least some of the teams do.

[geogra4]

not hangouts? allo? duo?

[q3k]

I don't think Allo and Duo are products designed for use in teams/organizations, or marketing themselves as such.

[geogra4]

Good ole phone calls is my guess