Comment Re:Cost of redundant switching (Score 1) 199
Considering the strategic importance of the communications infrastructure to Wall St and the nations' (as well as the world's) economies, I think it is highly irresponsible and almost an egregious dereliction of Verizon's duty to the nation to say(in so many words) "yeah? what's your point?".
They should be so fully redundant that there is no possibility of failure (beyond human error, etc).
Why did they not have a generator nearby? Why did they not have multi-routed cabling? That place must generate some significant revenues, and even if it doesn't, it needs to be made fault-avoiding and -tolerant beyond any "normal" measures.
They should be so fully redundant that there is no possibility of failure (beyond human error, etc).
Why did they not have a generator nearby? Why did they not have multi-routed cabling? That place must generate some significant revenues, and even if it doesn't, it needs to be made fault-avoiding and -tolerant beyond any "normal" measures.
