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

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Mushroom networks has some really interesting internet bonding and sharing
appliances that may help implement redundancy with some degree of economy.

Yes it's not quite as powerful as a self healing - not even the same range
of technology - but it would help to reduce downtime drastically.

We depend on the ISP (airtel in our case) for redundancy. For example our
network downtime for the last 1 year and 8 months, has been a total of 5
minutes (give or take a few seconds) - and the network switch seems
seamless to the users.

-C

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:31 PM, <jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> dear members of the list
>
>
> Norbert wrote :
>
> <It's possible to design a network for resilience, with enough
> > 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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