Comments on: On the benefits of redundant telecoms in Pakistan http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/ because information can save lives Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Currion http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-129738 Paul Currion Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:31:35 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/#comment-129738 40 hours is a less impressive response time, and I should read more carefully... More redundancy is the key to resilience, and hopefully less injured engineers! 40 hours is a less impressive response time, and I should read more carefully…

More redundancy is the key to resilience, and hopefully less injured engineers!

]]> By: Masud http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-129237 Masud Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:39:17 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/#comment-129237 There are at least four national backbone providers in Pakistan: Wateen, Multinet, Mobilink and PTCL, each with resilient fiber-optic rings from Peshawar to Karachi. Operators other than PTCL have just entered the market and the bulk of national circuits is still with PTCL. However, with passage of time, this is bound to change and network designers would engage alternate carriers to ensure greater uptime. During Rioting, Engineers have to risk life to restore services and the downtime I talked was 40 hours not 40 minutes :-). Cheers! There are at least four national backbone providers in Pakistan: Wateen, Multinet, Mobilink and PTCL, each with resilient fiber-optic rings from Peshawar to Karachi. Operators other than PTCL have just entered the market and the bulk of national circuits is still with PTCL. However, with passage of time, this is bound to change and network designers would engage alternate carriers to ensure greater uptime. During Rioting, Engineers have to risk life to restore services and the downtime I talked was 40 hours not 40 minutes :-) . Cheers!

]]> By: Paul Currion http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-128235 Paul Currion Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:17:40 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/#comment-128235 Thanks for giving us the detail, Masud. 40 minutes is a pretty impressive response time! Do you know if the government and companies involved have any plans to make the infrastructure more resilient? Thanks for giving us the detail, Masud. 40 minutes is a pretty impressive response time! Do you know if the government and companies involved have any plans to make the infrastructure more resilient?

]]> By: Masud http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-127648 Masud Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:42:00 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/#comment-127648 Paul: The disruption in telecom was created when a mob torched the equipment inside a telephone exchange situated in Sukkur (Sindh Province). This affected the National SDH ring that was carrying voice and data traffic between Punjab (Lahore, Islamabad) and Sindh (Karachi). The Rangers were called in to evacuate the exchange. The engineers did a wonderful job to bring everything back online in less than 40 hours!. The alternate traffic path was also down because of a mob fiber cut near Hyderabad (in Sindh Province). Benazir Bhutto belonged to Sindh ... hence the maximum unrest there. Cheers! Paul: The disruption in telecom was created when a mob torched the equipment inside a telephone exchange situated in Sukkur (Sindh Province). This affected the National SDH ring that was carrying voice and data traffic between Punjab (Lahore, Islamabad) and Sindh (Karachi). The Rangers were called in to evacuate the exchange. The engineers did a wonderful job to bring everything back online in less than 40 hours!. The alternate traffic path was also down because of a mob fiber cut near Hyderabad (in Sindh Province). Benazir Bhutto belonged to Sindh … hence the maximum unrest there. Cheers!

]]> By: Tom Longley http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/comment-page-1/#comment-121961 Tom Longley Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:11:28 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/31/on-the-benefits-of-redundant-telecoms-in-pakistan/#comment-121961 John Robb from Global Guerrillas makes a similar point about systems disruption: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/13425/24596336 John Robb from Global Guerrillas makes a similar point about systems disruption:

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/13425/24596336

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