Interesting comment in today's Herald: The question being asked in telecommunications circles is, how did it happen? Such systems are supposed to be fail-safe. Had a contractor put a digger through a fibre optic cable servicing the exchange, everyone would have understood. But not so the failure of a complex marriage of computer equipment from several international suppliers. Protecting the network from backhoe surgery is easy -- you just throw in diverse paths around any potential single point of failure. A "complex marriage of computer equipment from several international suppliers" on the other hand sounds like a recipe for disaster :) --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog