Michael Newbery wrote:
I'd like to think so. :) For a start, it takes more than two fibre cuts in the North Island to disrupt us (that's new since you fled Andy :)
Good! How about three? (:-) What happens in the South Island? Crossing the Cook Straight? ..... The point I'm trying to make is that for most of us we've no idea how reduncancy works in the Telecom and TelstraClear networks. Given that the "trust us, we've got five 9s reliability in the core" message from Telecom sounds a little hollow right now, it seems reasonable to ask the same question of TelstraClear and other major providers. And the real point as you so rightly said is that distributed systems are the way to go. I understand about 'clumpiness' but I've never yet seen a telco who doesn't tend to excessive clumpiness and that's one of the questions I'm asking. This isn't a poke at Telecom or TelstraClear - they are what they are. What I am asking is for those on this list to ask themselves should they rely on a single provider for all their services (and that's definitely "clumpiness" that the telcos encourage) and then complain when the inevitable happens. And I can't think of a better time to ask these questions!