[governance] United Airlines 'Network Outage' Snarls Air Travel

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Daniel,

Further to lousy networks - I've seen some airline network setups here -
they are resilient to _only_ one disaster. That is fire. Anything else
(i.e. if the circuit breaker trips) will take the network down. The guilty
shall not be named -  but it's likely a fair few organizations skip out on
the obvious where this is concerned.

-C

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

>
>
> On 11.09.12 12:09, Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
>> Charity Gamboa<charityg at diplomacy.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>  You know - network outage may happen anywhere.
>>>
>> It's possible to design a network for resilience, with enough
>> redundancy to avoid any single points of failure. This is significantly
>> more expensive (you don't only have to pay for more equipment, but
>> also more expensive experts to design and implement it), but I think
>> that an airline which doesn't have this kind of robust network really
>> doesn't have any excuse.
>>
>
> Very much agree. The thing is, all these airlines claim, and are
> "obviously" certified to have such infrastructure in place.
> Not only the airlines, but everywhere around us there is too much public
> infrastructure, that implemented in so many naive ways, that it barely
> "somehow works".
>
> It is not only about being "more expensive". These airlines probably
> already paid more than enough to bunch of "certified experts" and all sorts
> of consultants. Since networking of this kind is relatively "new", the
> principle "anything goes" applies.
>
> And, those people who endorse such lousy network implementations are the
> same people who insist they should govern the Internet?
>
> Daniel
>
>
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