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

[jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr]

dear members of the list


Norbert wrote :

redundancy to avoid any single points of failure. This is significantly
> more expensive

This may be wrong especially in a "competitItion driven environment" as it exists in most parts in the developing world, in particular in Africa.

This neoliberal "networking" leads to multiple networks competing one another, and this happens at both national and (sub)regional levels. See Kenya with its five "backbones" and South Africa with its multiple subregional links where Liquid Telecom is just building its own "panafrican network" !

The total costs (CAPEX + OPEX) of this kind of "multiple networking", which mostly doesn't rely on any serious nor state-of-the-art surveys and planning, are far more expensive than those of BT (UK), DT(Germany) or FT (France) self-healing networks !

But "multiple networking" is so in-tune with the neoliberal melody ... and therefore especially appreciated and promoted by all international institutions, WB and ITU first !  

 

Greetings

Jean-Louis Fullsack

 

> Message du 11/09/12 11:09
> De : "Norbert Bollow" 
> A : governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Copie à : "Charity Gamboa" 
> Objet : Re: [governance] United Airlines 'Network Outage' Snarls Air Travel
> 
> Charity Gamboa 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.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert 
> 
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