http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access
I have to say "scavenging for copper" sounds so innocent. Not like someone was actually digging up telecoms lines to sell the copper and was thwarted by finding a fibre inside, or anything like that :-)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands (hence the name) to carry signals over wires (us... -
For many years I used a small stand-alone air-conditioning unit in my study (the box room in the house) and I even had a hole in the wall fo... -
This is an appeal for (sensible) comments. I am working on revised A&A tariffs for broadband. For those that are not sure how they wor...
Was that what took Slough exchange out last week then?
ReplyDeleteI'm still wondering if this Georgia story isn't an April fool that slipped through.
ReplyDeleteResiliency costs money...
ReplyDeleteI guess it depends if the cost of an outage outweighs the cost of putting in and then maintaining a redundant system.
That said anything mission critical should have sufficient resiliency to withstand such event and I'd say this qualifies as mission critical ;-).
Sadly accountants often fail to understand the consequences of not having a proper resilient system in place and just see all the money that can be saved not buying the extra kit needed.
Not sure where I read this but it makes sense - when talking to clients who don't know the industry very well and you start talking about redundancy, they then start asking things like "why do we need a spare - is what you're selling us no good, I thought you said it was enterprise class / top of the range - maybe we should consider someone elses equipment?" etc...
ReplyDelete