David Robinson wrote:
>
> "For a start, it takes more than two fibre cuts in the
North Island to
> disrupt us"
>
> And also remember back early in the year when one slip on
the Hutt
> motorway took out all services in Wellington.
>
> What is so wrong with Telstra's network that single events
can affect
> so many people, when supposable it takes more than two
fibre cuts to
> disrupt them?
This post you've quoted was related to the core network -
i.e. the bits that connect Wellington to Auckland etc. This
is a fault in the access network i.e. the bit that connects
Mary and Bob (or in this case Kandallah) to the core
network. NO operator has full redundancy in the access
network for residential services. If you want that, you need
to pay through the nose to get a business service, even then
most services give you only a single copper pair/fibre/cable
to your premises which is still a single point of failure.
Jonathan
