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

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Rod Beck wrote:
> Unfortunately it is news to the decision makers, the buyers of network 
> capacity at many of the major IP backbones. Indeed, the Atlantic route 
> has problems quite similar to the Pacific.

If this is news to them, perhaps its time to get new decision makers and 
buyers of network capacity at major IP backbones :-)

Unfotunately people have to learn the same lessons over and over again.

http://www.atis.org/ndai/

  "End-to-end multi-carrier circuit diversity assurance currently cannot
  be conducted in a scalable manner. The cost and level of manual effort
  required demonstrated that an ongoing program for end-to-end
  multi-carrier circuit diversity assurance cannot currently be widely
  offered."

http://www.atis.org/PRESS/pressreleases2006/031506.htm

  "The NDAI report confirmed our suspicions that diversity assurance is
  not for the meek," Malphrus added. "It is expensive and requires
  commitment by the customer to work closely with carriers in performing
  due diligence. Until the problem is solved, circuit route diversity
  should not be promoted as a general customer best practice."