[94418] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Jan 21 19:37:50 2007
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:36:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070121.155400.748.227744@webmail17.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
