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1. kqgnkqgn · 1790019316 · focus · HN ↗

   Building multiple diverse paths and monitoring for fiber cuts is not hard. Having 2 fiber paths is insufficient for even only moderately important workloads at a tech company. Overlapping fiber cuts happen. For something with significant economic and safety impact this is just crazy.

   Sometimes the level of incompetence / lack of care in organizations like this astounds me. I understand issues like this can be complicated and systemic but it honestly makes me think very poorly of the technologists building these systems in government.

   1. RyJones · 1790023885 · focus · HN ↗

      I've told this story so many times I've worn the corners off it. BT was giving a presentation to MSN WAN OPS about the new datacenter buildout in London for us. They kept going on and on about physical security, man traps, and that our fiber left the building on each side and didn't get close to each other for so many km away.

      BT guy ends that part of the presentation with "the IRA will really have to get shit together to take you off the net"

      This was during the troubles. Same planet, different world.

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