@aki - Well it's a business. If I get a client willing to pay not just 4000, maybe I convince them to pay 10000 USD? Who are you to ask why? You can say and write all you want but in the end how people choose to run and charge for a service is between them, the customer and maybe a legal entity if it's a controlled environment. 2. Yes you can definately get a guaranteed service. Including SLA's. It depends on what you ask for. You just need to pay for it. Yes including graphs and a few sms's when a threshold gets pissed... I don't have to prove anything, I can however tell you almost anything you need is achievable. If you have a real use case for such a service I can direct you accordingly. On the other hand, if you went to an ISP and paid for 'Internet', I can assure you they never guaranteed anything out of a legal requirement; if they did they lied. I mean for a lot of people 'Facebook' is Internet. It's like 'the cloud' debate all over again. If their servers blow up do I call them because I'm required to? Nope. Infant at that point Facebook are a nuisance on my network and I don't see why my NOC is answering calls on their behalf. Gitau Sent from my iPad On 28 Feb 2012, at 14:31, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi @Brian, imo, "force majeure" would put the current situation in the same class as that of an earthquake or civil/political unrest which I believe it is not. The damage to a cable in a busy shipping lane carries its risk, and based on this assumption there would be a need for redundancies. Unfortunately it is the ISP/Telco/Gateway operators responsibility to assure its able to deliver on services. This is where we are told it's a business decision and not a requirement. And that is why am saying CCK, if the clauses do not exist, needs to make it a requirement not a business decision because of the nature of the Telecommunications sector. The impact of the current outage is significant enough to warrant some changes. :-)
@John_Gitau. Not sure if you can respond to this, but why is it that the business decisions still charge up to 400USD for a 1Mbit capacity that is based on pricing almost 3 years old? Yet despite paying the 400USD, you would still not be able to guarantee connectivity between Nairobi to Fujairah? However, when the business person bought the capacity, they paid for the termination between those 2 points. Secondly, I don't believe you that Safaricom offers end to end SLAs. Are you saying that you are able to provide a traffic manager graph in Fujiarah based on an end-end capacity between Nairobi-Fujiarah on e.g. Teams? Please share more, as its quite interesting. :-)
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