[kictanet] ISP Mayhem

Thu Mar 15 00:15:45 EAT 2012

Eric,

I concur on one hand, but disagree on the other.  In all practicality none
of the providers will willingly

implement costly redundancy while considerations such as cost outlay, ROI,
etc heavily weigh in 

on decisions. Your guess could be as good as mine,- that unless something
gives, we will be down

this road again..

It is also possible for providers to work out prior inter-party agreements
among themselves, to build 

redundancy across their networks. For instance, when provider A is down, and
provider B is up, 

a prior agreement already in place should allow provider A to  transit
through B's N/w at short notice

without much haggling. They need to sit down and talk.

The regulator must  step in here and make it a public policy that makes it
mandatory for service providers

to build redundancy into their networks. This is for the simple reason that,
as a critical "Economic" lifeline 

for the country, and at the same time a "service delivery" vehicle for
crucial services on which an entire 

nation depends, this infrastructure is of strategic importance and we cannot
afford such outages in future.

I insist that nationwide internet connectivity is strategic to our national
security at this point, and must be 

treated as such.

It's time to get back to the drawing table and come up with relevant
guidelines. We need to wake up and 

realize the internet of a decade ago, when most of the ISP's sprang up has
transformed into something 

more monumental that cannot be handled casually.

We better work on this, as we deal with the upcoming project at Konza, lest
it becomes self-contained.

Over to the policy makers..

Harry

From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of Eric M.K Osiakwan
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 6:31 PM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem

......i would be slow to make this a public policy challenge and rather beg
the question, "what happened to redundancy in network planning?"

Eric here

On 14 Mar 2012, at 10:00, Harry Delano wrote:

Many thanks, all..

Looks we all crippled now.., right..? Time to consider some of this
infrastructure as strategic to National security..

Bw. PS...? 

Harry

-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Hook [mailto:francis.hook at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:31 PM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem

And I think we need more diversity and more redundancy on the
terrestrial back bone - if two backhaul links between NBO and MSA go
down, its probably worse than one submarine cable cut.

On 14 March 2012 12:28, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com> wrote:

Zuku, TKL and Airtel too were down and seem partially restored  - word

from Zuku is that a link between NBO and MSA was affected.

On 14 March 2012 10:52, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:

Who has any idea what's happening. The List is too silent, or are we

affected

by the connectivity break-down.?

Seems Safaricom and Orange, are the only ones still standing on their

feet

as

per the last check..

Anyone..?

Harry

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