[94417] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Sun Jan 21 18:56:38 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:53:49 GMT
To: sean@donelan.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- 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
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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