RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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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