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Re: Fiber cut in SF area
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:44:35 -0700
Roger Marquis wrote:
Why didn't the "man in the street" pharmacy have its own backup plans?I assume they, as most of us, believed the government was taking care of the country's critical infrastructure. Interesting how well this illustrates the growing importance of the Internet vis-a-vis other communications channels.
It's also possible that they just planned on being down in such an event. There's two factors here: Not all low frequency risks are worth mitigating (how many of us have generators at home). Humans are bad at planning around rare events. Econimist Nassim Taleb's book The Black Swan (isbn 978-1400063512) ought to be on everyones list for coverage of the subject matter. Fiber cuts are well outside the realm of experience for your average business manager. The normal remediation strategy (for telecommunications outage) in fact worked just fine, call your provider, and or wait for them to fix it.
Roger Marquis
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- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Jorge Amodio (Apr 11)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Sean Donelan (Apr 11)
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- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Ravi Pina (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Roy (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Mike Lyon (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Jorge Amodio (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Roy (Apr 11)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Joel Jaeggli (Apr 11)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Peter Beckman (Apr 13)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Crist Clark (Apr 13)
- RE: Fiber cut in SF area Peter Beckman (Apr 13)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Nathan Ward (Apr 13)
- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Jack Bates (Apr 13)
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- Re: Fiber cut in SF area Jack Bates (Apr 13)
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