Hi Aki,
I earlier mentioned in a different thread KDN's initiative to build a redundant link to ensure resiliency on trunk links.
You can be sure KDN and probably other operators understand quite well the need for uninterrupted services. We are all struggling to achieve this. Give us time to meet this goal. As it goes "Rome wasn't build in one single day".
It takes quite sometime leave alone other resources to build fiber network links spanning 1500km and ensure protection of the physical route. We just made undersea cable connection a reality, protecting it is our present day challenge and time will tell.
Rgds,
Dan O.Kwach,
Kenya Data Networks.
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From: aki
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:57:09 +0300
To: <dan.kwach@kdn.co.ke>; Skunkworks forum<skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] KDN cut their rates by 90% last week....haventseen any of you skunkers commenting on this issue
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM, <dan.kwach@kdn.co.ke> wrote:Aki,
I doubt if the issue with the trunk was given an "its just another day" kind of feeling! Is there any sufficient justification for this statement?
Rgds,
Dan O.Kwach,
Kenya Data Networks.
Hi Dan,my personal observation....repairing a trunk and downtime as an operator is discouraging ( 1 day in a year is fine ) . Am sure tkl will do no better. ( back to the days of card failures at kentsream resulted in internet outages for days... ) What will it take to create trunks as mission critical networks?I'm sure there was plenty of efforts and running around to get it going from KDN's part but that is irrelevant. Because of the trunk failure, redundancy is via satellite. Satellite capacity is not offered for free i.e 90% more expensive, so who bears the cost of downtime? The end users. SP providers will provision their rates based on how much fiber capacity needed and also sat redundancy bandwidth. Rates cannot drop drastically due to un-reliability.I wonder what HE Museveni had to say about the downtime or in future HE Kagame? These two countries are dependent on the fiber via kenya.
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