......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.

On 14 March 2012 10:52, Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:

Who has any idea what’s happening. The List is too silent, or are we
affected

by the connectivity break-down…?

Seems Safaricom and Orange, are the only ones still standing on their
feet
as

per the last check..

Anyone..?

Harry

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