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RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted

  • From: Fergie
  • Date: Sun Jan 21 18:59:16 2007

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- -- Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote:

>The FAA, Federal Reserve, SFTI and SMART are probably at the top as
>far as trying to engineer their networks and maintain diversity 
>assurances.  But even the Federal Reserve found the cost more than
>it could afford. What commercial banks are doing is impressive,
>but only in a "commercially reasonable" way. Some residual risk and 
>outages are always going to exist.
>
>No matter what the salesman tells you, Murphy still lives.
>

This really has more to do with analogies regarding organizations
such as DeBeers, and less with Murphy's Law. :-)

- - ferg

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