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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