Eric,
I concur on one hand, but disagree on the other. In all practicality none of the providers will willingly
implement costly redundancy while considerations such as cost outlay, ROI, etc heavily weigh in
on decisions. Your guess could be as good as mine,- that unless something gives, we will be down
this road again..
It is also possible for providers to work out prior inter-party agreements among themselves, to build
redundancy across their networks. For instance, when provider A is down, and provider B is up,
a prior agreement already in place should allow provider A to transit through B’s N/w at short notice
without much haggling. They need to sit down and talk.
The regulator must step in here and make it a public policy that makes it mandatory for service providers
to build redundancy into their networks. This is for the simple reason that, as a critical “Economic” lifeline
for the country, and at the same time a “service delivery” vehicle for crucial services on which an entire
nation depends, this infrastructure is of strategic importance and we cannot afford such outages in future.
I insist that nationwide internet connectivity is strategic to our national security at this point, and must be
treated as such.
It’s time to get back to the drawing table and come up with relevant guidelines. We need to wake up and
realize the internet of a decade ago, when most of the ISP’s sprang up has transformed into something
more monumental that cannot be handled casually.
We better work on this, as we deal with the upcoming project at Konza, lest it becomes self-contained.
Over to the policy makers..
Harry
From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Eric M.K Osiakwan
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:31 PM
To: harry@comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem
......i would be slow to make this a public policy challenge and rather beg the question, "what happened to redundancy in network planning?"
Eric here
On 14 Mar 2012, at 10:00, Harry Delano wrote:
Many thanks, all..
Looks we all crippled now.., right..? Time to consider some of this
infrastructure as strategic to National security..
Bw. PS...?
Harry
-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Hook [mailto:francis.hook@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:31 PM
To: harry@comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem
And I think we need more diversity and more redundancy on the
terrestrial back bone - if two backhaul links between NBO and MSA go
down, its probably worse than one submarine cable cut.
On 14 March 2012 12:28, Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> wrote:
Zuku, TKL and Airtel too were down and seem partially restored - word
from Zuku is that a link between NBO and MSA was affected.