RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
The FAA, Federal Reserve, SFTI and SMART are probably at the top as far as trying to engineer their networks and maintain diversity assurances. But even the Federal Reserve found the cost more than it could afford. What commercial banks are doing is impressive, but only in a "commercially reasonable" way. Some residual risk and outages are always going to exist.
No matter what the salesman tells you, Murphy still lives.
This really has more to do with analogies regarding organizations such as DeBeers, and less with Murphy's Law. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFs/0Iq1pz9mNUZTMRAnhwAJ43Idwddu7LUfDyvIRqdal0tB6wKwCfZpgF KRslz7vAmtiHEZQ+CioIgIw= =cC3f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Fergie wrote:
This really has more to do with analogies regarding organizations such as DeBeers, and less with Murphy's Law. :-)
No, its not a scarcity argument. You have the same problem regardless of the number of carriers or fibers or routes. There wasn't a lack of alternate capacity in Asia. Almost all service was restored even though the cables are still being repaired. Its an assurance problem, not an engineering problem.
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