<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Safaricom is up and running with a few expected hiccups, why don't we just ask them how they have been able to keep their clients operational even with the cutting of all fibre cables.</div><div><br></div><div>Redundancy is a cost and needs to be met by someone, so Eric the question should be "how much redundancy are you willing to pay for?"</div><div><br></div><div>Why hasn't anyone asked where exactly is this point where all the cables from Nairobi to Mombasa converge? The Teams & EASSy cables where cut by an anchor because they run parallel and next to each other, assuming they are not one and the same cable.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Just incase my intentions are misunderstood I would like to make it clear that this is not a paid post but
even if it was would I really confirm it, hmmmm.</div><div> </div><div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br></div><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<br> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Eric M.K Osiakwan <emko@internetresearch.com.gh><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 18:31<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet]
ISP Mayhem<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv268630490"><div><div><span class="yiv268630490Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">......i would be slow to make this a public policy challenge and rather beg the question, "what happened to redundancy in network planning?"</span></div><div><span class="yiv268630490Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv268630490Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Eric here</span></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 14 Mar 2012, at 10:00, Harry Delano wrote:</div><br class="yiv268630490Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Many thanks, all..<br><br>Looks we all crippled now.., right..? Time to consider some of this<br>infrastructure as strategic to National security..<br><br>Bw. PS...?
<br><br>Harry<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Francis Hook [mailto:francis.hook@gmail.com] <br>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:31 PM<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke">harry@comtelsys.co.ke</a><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] ISP Mayhem<br><br>And I think we need more diversity and more redundancy on the<br>terrestrial back bone - if two backhaul links between NBO and MSA go<br>down, its probably worse than one submarine cable cut.<br><br><br>On 14 March 2012 12:28, Francis Hook <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:francis.hook@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:francis.hook@gmail.com">francis.hook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Zuku, TKL and Airtel too were down and seem partially restored - word<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">from Zuku is that a link between NBO and MSA was
affected.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 14 March 2012 10:52, Harry Delano <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke" target="_blank" href="mailto:harry@comtelsys.co.ke">harry@comtelsys.co.ke</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Who has any idea what’s happening. The List is too silent, or are we<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">affected<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">by the connectivity break-down…?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote
type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Seems Safaricom and Orange, are the only ones still standing on their<br></blockquote></blockquote>feet<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">as<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">per the last check..<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Anyone..?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote
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